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From: Philippe Ciaravola <vola AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Subject: Re: sshd problems
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:46:35 -0500
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Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I have CYGWIN set to "binmode ntea".  Also, the command is 
native to windows and works perfectly with the 3 arguments (even if I 
pass bogus arguments) and thus I do not think it has to do with 
authentication of the user.

Phil

On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Larry Hall wrote:

> At 10:24 AM 3/22/2004, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to this list, so I apologies if this issue has been 
>> addressed before.
>>
>> I just installed cygwin 1.5.9.1 on a windows 2000 machine.  Setup 
>> sshd with keys (for logon without passwords) as a service.  
>> Everything _appears_ to work correctly: I can login to the machine 
>> without having to type my password.  Most commands work properly (ex: 
>> ls, cd, mkdir, etc).  For some reason, the output of a single 
>> application (pcounter) does not appear to the screen (unless I pass 3 
>> arguments to the command, in which case the command works fine).  If 
>> I remove the ssh keys and login from/to the same machine (and login 
>> by typing my password), then the command works fine.
>>
>> I'm at a loss and don't know what to try to resolve this problem.
>
>
> I assume that 'pcounter' is some native Windows application.  It almost
> sounds to me like 'pcounter' requires an authenticated user to work but
> your note about passing '3 arguments' to make it work casts doubts on
> that.  You might want to try removing 'tty' as a setting for the CYGWIN
> environment variable that 'sshd' uses when it starts as a service, 
> assuming
> you specified 'tty' as an option when you configured sshd.
>
>
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