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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:13:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but   CYGWIN    *not* set
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On May 24 22:27, Brian Dessent wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
> 
> > I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when
> > I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty:
> > 
> > % echo $CYGWIN
> > server
> > % ssh localhost
> > Last login: Wed May  4 20:20:04 2005 from localhost
> > % echo $CYGWIN
> 
> Hmm, weird.  I see the same thing here too.  Not sure if it was always
> this way or a recent change in the DLL / cygrunsrv / sshd.

It's by design of sshd, right now.  Even though cygrunsrv propagates
this environment to the child applications, sshd doesn't.

This is a change to sshd which had been requested upstream.  The main
developers felt that propagating all SYSTEM environment to the
unprivileged child applications has to be treated as unsecure.
Therefore I implemented to propagate only the core Windows environment
to child processes back in 3.9, AFAIR.


Corinna

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