/usr/bin/reboot and win2k3

Thu Apr 8 00:34:00 GMT 2004

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Matt Berney wrote:
> Hello,
>> I am using cygwin v1.5.9 on Win2k3 standard edition servers. sshd
> service is installed and working. I can ssh as a local user or user in
> the active directory domain. All privileges appear to be as expected.
> I want to be able to use ssh to remotely reboot a server.
>> ssh -l root <servername> /usr/bin/reboot -f -r now
>> Where:
> <servername> is the name of the server I want to reboot
> root is the username in the active directory domain that has local
> administrator privileges on the server
>> When I execute the ssh command to reboot the server, it doesn't seem to
> do anything. However, if I open a remote desktop session (as root) on
> the desired server and execute the same command, the server reboots as
> expected. Am I missing something?
>> Thanks,
> Matt Berney

A WAG: is your sshd service interactive (allowed to "Interact with
Desktop")?
	Igor
P.S. Please configure your mailer to wrap long lines. Thanks.
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