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Subject: Re: Cygrunsrv and special Windows virtual accounts "NT SERVICE"
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On Dec 18 10:45, bartels wrote:
> On 12/18/2012 05:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >>  what about '-w -' or a long-only option
> >>>  like --null-pwd?
> >I'd say, the latter.
> >"-w -" looks like you are trying to read password from STDIN.
> 
> I heartily concur for two reasons:
> 
> 1) '-w -' really looks like like stdin/out
> 
> 2) '-' is actually a valid password
> 
> Let's go for --null-pwd

Btw., this is an open source project, guys:

  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs AT sourceware DOT org:/cvs/cygwin-apps co cygrunsrv

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC


Corinna

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