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Re: TTY and sshpass


On Feb 10 18:03, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
> > On 2/9/2012 7:46 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
> > I've been using sshpass (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/) for a
> > while and it stopped working after I updated cygwin to the last version
> > 1.7.10-1 (was wokring with 1.7.9).
> [...]
> I'm going to contact sshpass author.

Apart from the fact that sshpass is a very dangerous package for your
security, and that you should prefer using public keys over using
sshpass, this seems to be not exactly a sshpass problem.  Rather it's a
change in the 1.7.10 Cygwin DLL which triggers this behaviour.

As a temporary workaround, try this patch to sshpass:

--- main.c.orig	2012-02-11 11:22:44.563278057 +0100
+++ main.c	2012-02-11 11:16:26.220409437 +0100
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ int runprogram( int argc, char *argv[] )
 	setsid();
         // This line makes the ptty our controlling tty. We do not otherwise need it open
         slavept=open(name, O_RDWR );
-        close( slavept );
+        //close( slavept );
+	open ("/dev/tty", O_RDWR);
 	
 	close( masterpt );
 


Corinna

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