On Jun 12 19:58, ne wrote: > Ok thanks, I thought that may be the case, a pity. I would have thought > wanting a seamless-"pre-authenticated"-X11-forwarded connection to a unix > box is something that would be highly desired and in common use under > Cygwin, I guess not :(
Descriptor passing isn't that easy to implement if you don't want to have some additional background server running all the time. I don't want to make cygserver a requirement for descriptor passing, really. It's something I want to implement at one point, though. > Unfortuantly the solaris machine I connect to doesn't use keys, is there > something else I could do which would allow me to run *local* xterms/rxvt's > to this box without having to type in the password everytime? (I realise I > can start remote xterms fine, but the remote terms aren't as good :P ). ssh-agent Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
