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Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 22:19:59 -0400
From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc AT plebeian DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygrunsrv --install <svc> --user <user>: avoid having to enter the user's password
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Hi Irfan,

I'm assuming that there is some reason you don't want to use the 
password option:
-w, --passwd <password>   Optional password for user. Only needed
                             if a user is given. If a user has an empty
                             password, enter `-w '. If a user is given 
but
                             no password, cygrunsrv will ask for a 
password
                             interactively.

The password prompt can be scripted with Perl.  (Assuming you *have* the 
password)

use IO::Pty::Easy;
$io = IO::Pty::Easy->new;
@cmd = qw{cygrunsrv -I name -t manual -p /c/foo.exe -u name};
$io->spawn(@cmd);
printf "read: %s\n", $io->read;
printf "write: %s\n", $io->write("foo\n");
printf "read: %s\n", $io->read;
printf "write: %s\n", $io->write("foo\n");
printf "read: %s\n", $io->read;
$io->close;


Hope that helps.
-Chris


On 2019-05-19 11:49 pm, Irfan Adilovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (All actions here assume an elevated mintty terminal)
> 
> I have the  need to automate the installation of autossh as a windows
> service (=> several dozen autossh services) and when installing as a
> local user, the password prompt is an issue.
> 
> Is there a way to add windows services with cygrunsrv from an elevated
> mintty bash shell to run as a local user, somehow without requiring
> that local user's password each time the service is installed?


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