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On Apr 27 10:14, Patrick Julien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen
> > The basic problem is that Cygwin doesn't constitute a remote desktop
> > logon server.  A session can only be created by a trusted logon process.
> > There isn;'t a simple API to request a new session ID.  Additionally,
> > on client machines RDP only allows one user RDP session.  If, say, an
> > ssh login would request a session, the request would either be refused,
> > or it would lock the console window.  Only on real RDP servers you can
> > have multiple sessions.
> 
> 
> I am going to research this a bit and see if anything can be done.
> When UAC prompts the user, you have switched session so there has to
> be a way to do it.

That's something else entirely.  It's switching the desktop, not the
RDP session.

> I don't want to start debating the good or bad of UAC

No, me neither.


Corinna

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