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From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Initiating a remote X session
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d69durkx.fsf@seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400EA72F.4060109@uoguelph.ca> (Steve Howie's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:22:07 -0500")

Hi Steve,

Steve Howie <showie@uoguelph.ca> writes:
> Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password
> prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under
> cygwin to front end this with a username/password pop-up window?
> That'd be ideal :)

If you don't really care that much about user-level security for this,
use a public key with an empty passphrase.

The Cygwin keychain package may also be interesting for you in this
context.

benny


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-21 15:31 Steve Howie
2004-01-21 15:41 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-21 16:24   ` Steve Howie
2004-01-21 17:10     ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-21 17:42     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2004-01-21 16:25   ` Andrew Braverman
2004-01-21 16:46 ` Chris Green
2004-01-22  9:30 ` Hans Dekker

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