From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29790 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2012 12:39:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 29727 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2012 12:38:44 -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; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:38:30 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7AE902C0074; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:38:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:39:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin getpass broken recently? was: cygrunsrv fails to prompt for user password Message-ID: <20120709123828.GA20472@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87292535788F4E2CB162C788878399B8@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87292535788F4E2CB162C788878399B8@multiplay.co.uk> 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: 2012-07/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 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 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 ...' 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