Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:22:33 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd on win2k [revisit] Message-ID: <20010502152233.M24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AEDC6C0.A799E394@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AEDC6C0.A799E394@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:10:40PM -0400 On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:10:40PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On 30 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > > >Its been a while since I checked on the availability of packages that > > >installs sshd on a win2k. > > > > > >Is it still amatter of tinkering or is there a package out that just > > >installs it, and allows win2k to run a sshd daemon? > > > > > it is still quite far from automatic. > > As you know, there are two separate problems there: > > 1) giving the right permissions to the users; > > 2) installing sshd as a service. > > > > Regarding 2), I saw at least one GPL-ed program that happily > > installs and manages itself as a service, etc, namely WinVNC > > (see http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/) > > It most probably could be used as a code sample to build > > such a thing for sshd. > > Corinna's version of inetd also does this. I (actually not me, but I > was an accessory to the crime) stole that code for ipc-daemon and now IT > does this too. The problem, IIRC, is that Corinna is trying to keep the > OpenSSH code as close to the official version as possible -- thus, most > changes are submitted right back to the openSSH people for official > inclusion. > > But the strange hacks necessary for windows service installation are > meeting with, err, resistance. So, either we maintain an official but > external patch, or we just continue status quo. > > Is that about right, Corinna? Yep. And since I have no problems to install sshd as a service in about 5 minutes I'm suffering an extrem letargy to change that. Personally I hate the special service code. I'm very happy with the SRVANY solution. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple