On Mar 29 07:25, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 03/29/2012 01:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >For some mystical reason, Microsoft didn't remove this checkbox, > >but other than that, yes, you're hosed starting with Vista/2008. > Well that sucks! I'm stuck because I wish to remotely execute a > script which uses a program (Excel) to get data and does not really > display a window because as of 2008 I cannot bestow a right > (interact with desktop) to a service that really shouldn't need that > right! Thanks MS! > > I believe I read somewhere that MS believes this to be some sort of > security hole but they should recognize that in some more controlled > situations like being in the intranet operating on servers that > probably don't even have displays where this should be allowed. > > I guess that checkbox then doesn't do anything. I wonder if anybody > has ever reported it...
Vista is 4 years old, so you have one guess... > >The workaround suggested in all Microsoft docs is to split the job > >into two processes, one started as service, the other started on > >the local desktop, and then to control the desktop process from > >the service process via some means of IPC. > Yes but how can this be done in the context of the service being > Cygwin's ssh and the desire being to simply run build scripts, some > of which read Excel files??? > > Oh well, thanks for the answer, Corinna, even though the news is not > good. Now to attempt to deal with this problem with asking the > question of the developers "Could you use some other form of input > than an Excel spreadsheet! - geeze!" ;-) CSV files? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple