On Jul 9 14:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 7 05:05, Steven Hartland wrote: > > ----- 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 <username> 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? > > Looks like it. The code doesn't notice if stdin is not connected to a > tty or pty, but to a socket instead and then falls back to returning > with an empty password immediately. I'll fix that in CVS. > > For the time being, the workaround is to run `ssh -t ...'
Oh, btw. For security reasons, you should always call ssh -t in this case, otherwise yoy have visible passwords. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
