"ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Wed May 25 07:09:00 GMT 2005


On 5/24/2005 10:04 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
> I could be wrong here but I thought that setting of $CYGWIN for the
> service affects only the environment of the actual service, not for the
> general cygwin environment.  If you want the CYGWIN environment variable
> set to a certain value globally, just set it in the system properties
> dialog.

I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when 
I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty:

% echo $CYGWIN
server
% ssh localhost
Last login: Wed May  4 20:20:04 2005 from localhost
% echo $CYGWIN

%

This is with the 2005-05-20 snapshot.


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