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Subject: Re: TTY and sshpass
From: Sylvain Archenault <punx120 AT gmail DOT com>
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> On 2/9/2012 7:46 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been using sshpass (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/) for a
> while and it stopped working after I updated cygwin to the last version
> 1.7.10-1 (was wokring with 1.7.9). I think it stops working because
> CYGWIN=TTY has changed or has been removed.
>
>
> Indeed, sshpass try to access TTY to communicate with the child ssh process,
> so I would think that the recent changes to TTY could be the problem.
>
>
> sshpass use "pselect" to read from the TTY, but the function returns an
> error the errno is set to :
> ERROR: Interrupted system call
>
>
> Does someone have an idea on the reason why ?
>
>
>Try using mintty instead.  If that doesn't help, try contacting the sshpass
>provider for help.
>
>--
>Larry

I'm using mintty for the terminal, If I used xterm with X11, it's
complaining about /usr/sbin/ssh-askpass.

I'm going to contact sshpass author.

Thank you
Sylvain

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