ssh password-less cmds to Windows 2003 don't return any output

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

John McNulty wrote:
> On 21/06/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Cygwin ssh (and basically all terminals except the Windows console) use
>> pipes to emulate ttys (so-called "ptys").  Some Windows applications 
>> don't
>> like these ptys and won't write data to them (and they will certainly not
>> detect them as a console, so any console-specific functions won't work
>> either).
> 
> Hmm .. this is where it gets even more interesting.  If I run:
> 
> $ ssh user@W2003 date
> Wed Jun 21 18:02:13 GMTDT 2006
> 
> .. then I get a result.  But other commands don't, e.g.
> 
> $ ssh user@W2003 cat /etc/hosts
> $ ssh user@W2003 ls


What does 'ssh user@2003 cygcheck ls' say?


>> On Windows 2003, SYSTEM does not have the appropriate privileges to 
>> switch
>> user contexts, so ssh-host-config needs to create an account that does.
>> Read <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-switch> for
>> details.
> 
> Before running ssh-host-config I did:
> 
> - Right click My Computer, Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables
> - Under System Variables, click New, add CYGWIN as the variable name,
> add ntsec as the variable value
> - Under System Variables, scroll down to Path, click Edit, add
> ;c:\cygwin\bin to the end of the string already in the field
> 
> Then opened Cygwin on the desktop, ran ssh-host-config and entered:
> 
> "Privilege Separation?" Yes
> "Create local user SSHd?" Yes
> "Install SSHd as a service?" Yes
> "CYGWIN = " enter ntsec
> 
> Should I have done anything different there on W2003 ?

Depends on what you need.  If you need to get output from non-Cygwin
executables, then you'll need to re-install the service with "nontsec"
instead.  But this is notably less secure.  There should be no need to
do this if you're simply dealing with Cygwin utilities though.

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