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Subject: Re: W2K and sshd, ssh  - asks for password
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:50:13 +0100
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> Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> In particular this means that no Cygwin code or script can
>> meaningfully set the "ntsec" keyword in the CYGWIN variable--it must
>> be supplied by the Windows environment.

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> That's not right.  It only holds for some of the CYGWIN settings as
> tty vs. notty which would be somewhat problematic.  E. g. a nontsec
> application can start a ntsec app and vice versa.

I didn't know that. I thought that the whole of CYGWIN was read only once at
first dll startup.

But then, I should have realised, since otherwise cygrunsrv -e "CYGWIN=ntsec"
would have no effect.

So, setting CYGWIN=tty via cygrunsrv is pointless? Because ssh-host-config does
that.

Max.


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