RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

> Rajiv Chopra wrote:
> > I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I
> > was very pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and
> > get faster runtimes than on our SUN servers at work.
> >
> > What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes
> > on my computer.  Is it possible to set up Cygwin such that he can
> > telnet to my machine and run a process?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Rajiv
>
> I would suggest installing openssh from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe.
>
> After that you can run the ssh-host-config script to install it as a
> service.
>
> After making sure the other guy's user ID is in your /etc/passwd file,
> you can have him log on your system locally and get to a bash prompt to
> initialize his environment.  Then have him run ssh-user-config to get
> the ssh stuff for his user account created.
>
> After that, he should be able to ssh into your system and do what he
> needs to do.
>
> -Jason

You might also want to mention that the relevant mounts should be system
mounts, not user ones (i.e., install for "All Users", not "Just Me")...
	Igor
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