From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9335 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2012 17:39:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 9173 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2012 17:39:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail1.multiplay.co.uk (HELO mail1.multiplay.co.uk) (85.236.96.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:38:50 +0000 X-Spam-Processed: mail1.multiplay.co.uk, Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:38:19 +0100 Received: from r2d2 ([188.220.16.49]) by mail1.multiplay.co.uk (mail1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.23]) (MDaemon PRO v10.0.4) with ESMTP id md50020636092.msg for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:38:19 +0100 X-MDRemoteIP: 188.220.16.49 X-Return-Path: prvs=1534d7e1e3=killing@multiplay.co.uk X-Envelope-From: killing@multiplay.co.uk X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: "Steven Hartland" To: "Cygwin List" Subject: cygrunsrv fails to prompt for user password Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:39:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00077.txt.bz2 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? Regards Steve -- 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