X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:11:22 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: SSH password change request Message-ID: <20100126191122.GA2402@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Jan 26 13:56, Jonathan Mailloux wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I modified "openssh-5.1p1-10" to allow SSH to have it login with a password and do some action on a single line. This is the result of a chain of problems I had to customize and automate our web installations here. > > Syntax is as follow: ssh password:username AT server [params] [actions] [etc...] > > I wanted to submit this to cygwin-packages but I am having all the troubles in the world connectiong via cvs + v1.7 has gone out. There are a couple of problems: - OpenSSH is at 5.3p1, not at 5.1p1, so the patches probably won't apply cleanly to the latest from CVS. - There is no cygwin-packages repository, there's only a cygwin-apps repository. - OpenSSH is not maintained in cygwin-apps, but entirely upstream by the OpenBSD community. See http://www.openssh.com/portable.html. - The Cygwin version of OpenSSH is also maintained in the upstream source tree. For CVS access to that tree, see the aforementioned web page at http://www.openssh.com/portable.html. There's no Cygwin-specific patch which hasn't been accepted in the upstream repository and, as the Cygwin OpenSSH maintainer, I'm not willing to apply Cygwin-specific patches which won't go upstream. - I'm very certain that the patch won't be accepted upstream, since there's nothing you can say which will the upstream maintainers convince to allow to specify a cleartext password on the command line. - Last but not least, with Cygwin 1.7 there are very likely other solutions to your problems, see the Cygwin User's Guide at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview and especially at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd2 and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple