On Nov 13 15:48, Herb Maeder wrote: > Still, even with these drawbacks, something like this might be useful for > us in ssh-host-config. If the invoking shell is already elevated, things > will pretty much work the way they do now. But if it is invoked from a > normal shell, the user would get prompted to elevate, and then the > ssh-host-config queries and input would happen in a different cmd window. > Not great, but still better than just exiting with an error (or, worse, > trying to continue with insufficient privileges).
Actually this isn't a ssh-host-config problem, but a generic problem for all admin tasks. Installing any service requires elevation, or running in a Admin shell. I'm not really convinced that we need it. Admins running admin tasks should know that they need admin privileges. What you're asking for is a convenience, not a necessity. Having said that, if we want that I think the Vista elevation stuff should go into csih, rather than ssh-host-config script, so all admin scripts can use the functionality easily in the long run. And I'm sure Charles wouldn't mind to get csih patches ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
