March | 2013 | boltblog

How to prevent ssh -X from hanging on exit when dbus is used

Unknownbolt | 2013-03-05

Programs like virt-manager and gedit commonly use dbus. Dbus running will prevent a clean exit of ssh -X, making it hang on exit until you press ctrl+c or kill dbus manually. To avoid having to kill dbus manually, let’s kill it automatically 🙂 Now, normally if I want to run virt-manager (or anything else graphical) […]

Cygwin auto started sshd service as single user on Windows 8

Unknownbolt | 2013-03-01

On a single user desktop, you might want to run cygwin sshd autostarted as a specific user, without privilege separation. Here’s a short reference: Disable UAC Open a Cygwin terminal ssh-host-config Select “no” on privilege separation Enter nothing, [], as the value of CYGWIN for the daemon Select “yes” to use a different username than […]