On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:09:33PM +1000, Stefan Walter wrote: >The loss of the POSIX permissions is fine for me. But what is then the >purpose of tty in the CYGWIN variable?
In the context of sshd, setting CYGWIN=tty makes no sense whatsoever. This has been a longstanding source of confusion which has gotten into the cygwin meme. For some reason, people think that they need to set CYGWIN=tty for programs which would never end up using it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/