On Nov 20 15:37, William Zhang wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry i hit the send button by mistake before I finished the last > mail. This is my > full question. > > I am wondering if there is a way to run the Cygwin OpenSSH service as > Local System Account in Windows 2003 and 2008 instead of the > cyg_server account created during the setup. I am using > Cygwin+OpenSSH on the Windows test server and I remotely execute > automation testing script from a linux box. However the program
This won't work. The reason why you can't use the LocalSystem account to run sshd (*and* get pubkey authentication) is not a Cygwin restriction, but a Windows restriction. With Windows 2008 this works even worse because the "Interact with desktop" has been officially deprecated for security reasons. It's still available in the services GUI but it doesn't work as on earlier systems. There are probably other workarounds for your problem. What exactly are you testing? Why do you need interaction with the desktop, even though you're doing automated script testing? For instance, the official workaround as propagated by Microsoft is to start the application by the user account running the desktop session and to use IPC mechanisms (named pipes, sockets) to communicate between the service and the desktop application. 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/
