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Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:52:51 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To:	"elfyn mcbratney" <emcb_exposure AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: proposed CYGWIN-SSHD.HOWTO doc
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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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