X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:51:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "ssh-host-config" now involves "cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh" Message-ID: <20090707095139.GK12258@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 6 15:38, Christoph Herdeg wrote: > > Hello, > > we're deploying an unattended installation of Cygwin to some of our > testmachines. On goal is to have SSH access to those machines, so we put a > customizing script to "/etc\profile.d" which then runs at 1st start > involving the command "ssh-host-config -y -c "tty ntsec" -w > "$RANDOM_PASS"". > > Every summer or so, we're used to update our package - again this year. But > all at once on systems with Server 2003, Vista or Server 2008 > "ssh-host-config" now stops and requests the name of a privileged user > instead of as before simply creating a privileged user "sshd_server" with > the given password. After doing some checks we found that latterly > "cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh" is involved in the process. Why? > > My personal opinion: If I give "ssh-host-config" the parameter "-y", the > process shouldn't be like: The new ssh-host-config script used for OpenSSH 5.2p1-3 in the Cygwin 1.7 release area doesn't have that problem anymore. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple