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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Matt Berney <mberney AT polyserve DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/reboot and win2k3
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Matt Berney wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using cygwin v1.5.9 on Win2k3 standard edition servers.  sshd
> service is installed and working.  I can ssh as a local user or user in
> the active directory domain.  All privileges appear to be as expected.
> I want to be able to use ssh to remotely reboot a server.
>
> ssh -l root <servername> /usr/bin/reboot -f -r now
>
> Where:
>   <servername> is the name of the server I want to reboot
>   root is the username in the active directory domain that has local
> administrator privileges on the server
>
> When I execute the ssh command to reboot the server, it doesn't seem to
> do anything.  However, if I open a remote desktop session (as root) on
> the desired server and execute the same command, the server reboots as
> expected.  Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Berney

A WAG: is your sshd service interactive (allowed to "Interact with
Desktop")?
	Igor
P.S. Please configure your mailer to wrap long lines.  Thanks.
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