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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:56:03 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: TTY and sshpass
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Thank you so much for this temporary workaround.  I tried setting up cygwin
and sshpass on a coworker's machine, and we spent half the day getting
frustrated with it.  I finally updated it on my machine, and realized
something must have broke between when I installed mine, and when we
installed his.

Anyway, tried your fix, and we're back in business.

Thanks!


Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote:
> 
> On Feb 10 18:03, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
>> > On 2/9/2012 7:46 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
>> > 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'm going to contact sshpass author.
> 
> Apart from the fact that sshpass is a very dangerous package for your
> security, and that you should prefer using public keys over using
> sshpass, this seems to be not exactly a sshpass problem.  Rather it's a
> change in the 1.7.10 Cygwin DLL which triggers this behaviour.
> 
> As a temporary workaround, try this patch to sshpass:
> 
> --- main.c.orig	2012-02-11 11:22:44.563278057 +0100
> +++ main.c	2012-02-11 11:16:26.220409437 +0100
> @@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ int runprogram( int argc, char *argv[] )
>  	setsid();
>          // This line makes the ptty our controlling tty. We do not
> otherwise need it open
>          slavept=open(name, O_RDWR );
> -        close( slavept );
> +        //close( slavept );
> +	open ("/dev/tty", O_RDWR);
>  	
>  	close( masterpt );
>  
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
> -- 
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