From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20858 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2012 14:25:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 20830 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Mar 2012 14:25:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:25:31 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SDGI2-00009c-Bi for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:25:26 +0200 Received: from rrcs-74-62-25-170.west.biz.rr.com ([74.62.25.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:25:26 +0200 Received: from Andrew by rrcs-74-62-25-170.west.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:25:26 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20120329080630.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120309 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <20120329080630.GA30721@calimero.vinschen.de> 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: 2012-03/txt/msg00784.txt.bz2 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... > 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!" ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. -- 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