From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25149 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2012 14:40:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 22801 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2012 14:39:41 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:39:17 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 742B22C006E; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:40:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server Message-ID: <20120329143914.GH30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120329080630.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00786.txt.bz2 On Mar 29 07:25, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 03/29/2012 01:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >For some mystical reason, Microsoft didn't remove this checkbox, > >but other than that, yes, you're hosed starting with Vista/2008. > Well that sucks! I'm stuck because I wish to remotely execute a > script which uses a program (Excel) to get data and does not really > display a window because as of 2008 I cannot bestow a right > (interact with desktop) to a service that really shouldn't need that > right! Thanks MS! > > I believe I read somewhere that MS believes this to be some sort of > security hole but they should recognize that in some more controlled > situations like being in the intranet operating on servers that > probably don't even have displays where this should be allowed. > > I guess that checkbox then doesn't do anything. I wonder if anybody > has ever reported it... Vista is 4 years old, so you have one guess... > >The workaround suggested in all Microsoft docs is to split the job > >into two processes, one started as service, the other started on > >the local desktop, and then to control the desktop process from > >the service process via some means of IPC. > Yes but how can this be done in the context of the service being > Cygwin's ssh and the desire being to simply run build scripts, some > of which read Excel files??? > > Oh well, thanks for the answer, Corinna, even though the news is not > good. Now to attempt to deal with this problem with asking the > question of the developers "Could you use some other form of input > than an Excel spreadsheet! - geeze!" ;-) CSV files? 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