X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:07:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Mounting shares that require passwords Message-ID: <20100813170706.GA19281@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C6572C4 DOT 4090501 AT bopp DOT net> 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 Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:56:55AM -0600, Steven Collins wrote: >On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:28, Jeremy Bopp <> wrote: >> On 8/13/2010 11:24 AM, Steven Collins wrote: >>> Is there some way within cygwin to successfully mount a share that >>> requires a password. Until I run the "net use" command or other >>> Windows application to open the share with the password Cygwin is >>> unable to access it. The best I've come up with so far is to run the >>> "net use" from my .bashrc. Is there a better way to handle this? >> >> Cygwin doesn't really mount anything. ?It just creates a path >> translation table which is used to convert POSIX paths into their >> equivalent Windows paths. ?So if you need to enter a password to access >> the share using a Windows program or net use the path first, the same >> will be true for Cygwin. > >It would be nice though if Cygwin would recognize that it was trying >to access a share and that a password is required. Cygwin is a general-purpose DLL. It can't stop what it is doing and ask the user for input. >I've actually run into an issue with my "net use" solution. Under >cygwin the command will prompt me for my password, but then it >immediately fails for a bad password. I'm never actually given a >chance to enter the password. If I enter the password on the command >line the command succeeds, but that is not an acceptable solution as >it means my password is in the clear. Any ideas on why this is >happening? Probably you're trying to run the "net use" command from a pty in mintty, rxvt, or ssh and "net use" doesn't recognize cygwin ptys. cgf -- 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