"ssh-host-config" now involves "cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh"

[Christoph Herdeg]

Hello,

we're deploying an unattended installation of Cygwin to some of our
testmachines. On goal is to have SSH access to those machines, so we put a
customizing script to "/etc\profile.d" which then runs at 1st start
involving the command "ssh-host-config -y -c "tty ntsec" -w
"$RANDOM_PASS"".

Every summer or so, we're used to update our package - again this year. But
all at once on systems with Server 2003, Vista or Server 2008
"ssh-host-config" now stops and requests the name of a privileged user
instead of as before simply creating a privileged user "sshd_server" with
the given password. After doing some checks we found that latterly
"cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh" is involved in the process. Why?

My personal opinion: If I give "ssh-host-config" the parameter "-y", the
process shouldn't be like:

*** Info: No privileged account could be found.
*** Info: This script plans to use 'cyg_server'.
*** Info: 'cyg_server' will only be used by registered services.
*** Query: Do you want to use a different name? (yes/no) yes

but like:

*** Info: No privileged account could be found.
*** Info: This script plans to use 'cyg_server'.
*** Info: 'cyg_server' will only be used by registered services.
*** Query: Do you want to use 'cyg_server'? (yes/no) yes

If a given user needs to interact with "ssh-host-config", he won't use
"-y". But he doesn't, above all "-y" shouldn't prevent it, right?

So what would be a cool solution for this problem?
                                                                       
 Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with                                    
 kind regards                                                          
                                                                       
 Christoph Herdeg                                                      
                                                                       
                                                                       
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