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Alfred Egger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to use a Cygwin sshd on Windows 98 First Edition? The
> machine is only used inside a abstracted network, but it is needed for
> a special software, and we need SSH access to the machine.
> 
> I already set up a Cygwin environment and configured it with these options:
> 
> Set Cygwin variable:
> 
> set CYGWIN=tty
> set path=C:\cygwin\bin
> 
> ssh-host-config -y
> 
> mkpasswd -l -g > /etc/passwd
> 
> Contents of file:
> 
> admin:use_crypt:500:544:Administrator:/home/admin:/bin/bash
> Administrator:use_crypt:895:544:Administrator:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> 
> mkgroup -l > /etc/group
> 
> Contents of file:
> 
> all::544:
> 
> cd /
> chmod -R og-w .
> chmod og+w /tmp
> touch /var/log/sshd.log
> chown system:system /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty /etc/ssh_h*
> chmod 755 /var/empty
> 
> Afterwards I started sshd.exe manually inside the /usr/sbin/ directory.
> 
> Now I can connect to the machine through a SSH-client, key exchange
> works well, and I get a login prompt, but I cannot login using my
> username "Administrator" and the password I set using the "rights
> management" in Windows 98. Login is not even possible from localhost.
> 
> Relieing to the unuseable rights management in Windows 98, is it even
> possible to use Windows 98 as a SSH server?

Did you look at the email archives?

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00151.html>

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