X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:04:50 +0100 X-MDRemoteIP: 188.220.16.49 X-Return-Path: prvs=153544c2be=killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-Envelope-From: killing AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <87292535788F4E2CB162C788878399B8@multiplay.co.uk> From: "Steven Hartland" To: "Cygwin List" References: Subject: cygwin getpass broken recently? was: cygrunsrv fails to prompt for user password Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 05:05:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hartland" > We're updating our servers to a newer version of cygwin (1.7.15) > from previous 1.7 version and in this version the install of > cygrunsrv (V1.40, Apr 25 2012) fails to correctly prompt for > a user password even though -u is being specified. > > It seems like cygrunsrv maybe checking for an "interactive" > session and incorrectly determining its not as in our case > we are running the cygrunsrv via ssh e.g. > > ssh "cygrunsrv ...." > > We know that this worked correctly in cygrunsrv V1.34, Mar 18 > 2008. > > Bug introduced recently? After inspecting the code for cygrunsrv and adding some debug I've determined this isn't a bug in the util but in cygwin's getpass function which I believe may have been changed recently by Corinna Vinschen, after googling around. Is this a new issue caused by these changes Corinna? Regards Steve -- 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