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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:38:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: rsync password prompt doesn't capture input and shows password
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From: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Mar 11 13:42, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin!
> 
> > On Mar 10 19:11, Marki wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> SSH password prompt captures the input correctly, and does not show it.
> >> 
> >> user@client /cygdrive/c/temp
> >> $ ssh server
> >> Password:
> >> Password:
> >> 
> >> Rsync on the other hand won't even let me enter the password correctly.
> >> 
> >> user@client /cygdrive/c/temp
> >> $ rsync -av xmppdb.db root@server:/tmp/
> >> Password: 123
> >> 123
> >> 123
> >> rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(701)
> >> [sender=3.2.4dev]
> 
> > I tried this myself in mintty as well as in a Console window, and in
> > both cases the password was not echoed and taken correctly:
> 
> >   $ rsync -av x.exe user@remote:/tmp/
> >   Password:
> >   sending incremental file list
> >   x.exe
> >   [...]
> 
> > Are you sure you're using the Cygwin rsync?
> 
> -rsync
> +ssh
> 
> There's no MS-provided rsync, but there's ssh in C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\

If that ssh is first in $PATH, then that's the potential problem.


Corinna
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