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Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set
On May 25 09:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > This is a change to sshd which had been requested upstream. The main
> > developers felt that propagating all SYSTEM environment to the
> > unprivileged child applications has to be treated as unsecure.
> > Therefore I implemented to propagate only the core Windows environment
> > to child processes back in 3.9, AFAIR.
>
> I would've thought that CYGWIN is a core environment variable (not a
> Windows one, of course). I'm not sure, though, whether it would be
> correct to propagate it -- one could argue either way...
Right. The upcoming 4.1p1 release will propagate the CYGWIN variable
as well. I just got that patch upstream last minute :-)
Corinna
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