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Re: proposed CYGWIN-SSHD.HOWTO doc
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: "elfyn mcbratney" <emcb_exposure at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:52:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: proposed CYGWIN-SSHD.HOWTO doc
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <F75d0JyZG2U5DKNxBLp0001c7c3@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
elfyn schrieb:
> I have taken a little while this morning to write a doc on how to setup sshd
> as a service under windows nt/2000/xp to help people new to cygwin or people
> experiencing problems. Really want others input and experience in setting it
> up. Maybe be added to the OpenSSH dist. Corinna???
This paragraph:
> Your CYGWIN environment variable needs to be set to 'tty' at least and
> if you want chmon/and or chown functionality 'ntsec ntea tty'. The nt*
> options should only be used on NT systems with NTFS partitions housing
> CYGWIN. warning: using the nt* options on 9x/Me systems can create large
> un-removable files on your system... CYGWIN=ntsec ntea tty
Running SSHD as a service under SYSTEM account only works iff you're using
CYGWIN=ntsec, not because of ch... functionality but because of switching
the user context to the remote user who is logging into the server.
Gerrit
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