Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/03/29/10:41:02
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
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