X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4518FFE5.1070500@equate.dyndns.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:24:37 +0100 From: Chris Taylor Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Ivanoff CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Pavel Ivanoff wrote: > Can anybody help me with this problem? There is some guess that this > happens due to some Local Security Policy on Windows XP (I know that in > last versions of cygwin sshd requires several settings in Local Security > Policy to work correctly). But I can't understand what policy prohibits > to make desktop windows over ssh... > > Thanks in advance. > Pavel Ivanov > > How are you authenticating with ssh? Password (keyboard-interactive) or keypair? If you are authenticating via keypair, it isn't really running as you, iirc. The SYSTEM user doesn't normally create desktop windows, so it's possible that this process isn't allowed to as a result.. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/