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Re: SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:07:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K
- References: <200310131658.RAA01977@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:58:45PM +0100, Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:38:29 +0100 (BST)
> > From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
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> > > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:08:25 +0100 (BST)
> > > From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave@aps5.ph.bham.ac.uk>
> > > Subject: Re: SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K
>
> > > >At 05:23 PM 9/30/2003, Matthew Hilty wrote:
> > > >>Hello,
> > > >> I've noticed on a recent installation of OpenSSH under cygwin
> > > >>(followed http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html) that users
> > > >>connected to the server via SSH have their connections closed if any
> > > >>Windows user logs out of the desktop. The SSHD daemon still functions,
> > > >>it just closes active sessions. After this, I can SSH back to the
> > > >>server and my session stays active until I intentionally log out, or
> > > >>another Windows users logs in, then out.
>
> I've found a workaround! You need to tell bash to ignore SIGHUP. (This
> will also be inherited by processes started by the shell).
>
> I added the following to /etc/profile, so that the shell will ignore
> SIGHUP in an interactive session started by sshd:
>
> # Fix to sshd problem (any Windows logout kills interactive ssh sessions)
> if [ -n "$SSH_TTY" ]; then
> trap '' SIGHUP
> fi
Thanks for all that examining the situation. I found the cause of that
problem in Cygwin and it should be solved in the next version.
Corinna
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