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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:43:08 -0700
From: Quang Ong <ong AT AI DOT SRI DOT COM>
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I found this previous discussion about this issue, but it doesn't appear 
to work or maybe someone can elaborate on this issue.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00211.html

I'm trying to do the same thing, launch a GUI app over SSH on the 
"server", not sending the display back to the ssh client.

I originally had openssh 5.8 and recently updated to 5.9. SSH to the 
windows machine works fine for the most part, except for the fact when I 
try to launch our build tool, which pops up a GUI, it doesn't work 
anymore. We have a much older XP machine running Cygwin 1.5 which works, 
but this new machine is running Win7 64-bit w/ Cygwin 1.7 openssh 5.9.

The quick test is to ssh into the cygwin machine and run notepad. Like 
the previous poster, I can see the process running, but nothing on the 
"console". I tried the recommended step of adding Interactive Logon 
rights using the editrights tool, but I didn't see how the poster was 
able to use the Services GUI to add "Allow service to interact with 
desktop" for a "regular user". Only the LOCAL SERVICE user has that 
option in the GUI.
1) Is the  "editrights -a SeInteractiveLogonRight -u ssh-admin " command 
the same as checking the "Allow service to interact with desktop"?
2) The poster also didn't seem to indicate which version of openssh. I 
found another discussion that mentioned that this capability worked with 
openssh 5.1:
   
http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2011-April/029490.html

Is this capability no longer possible/suported?

Thanks,
Q

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