Re: Initiating a remote X session

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin dot Riefenstahl at epost dot de>]

Hi Steve,

Steve Howie <showie@uoguelph.ca> writes:
> Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password
> prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under
> cygwin to front end this with a username/password pop-up window?
> That'd be ideal :)

If you don't really care that much about user-level security for this,
use a public key with an empty passphrase.

The Cygwin keychain package may also be interesting for you in this
context.

benny