X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: How to login to another Unix workstation or Cygwin PC Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:30:44 -0600 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Steve Boyd wrote: > I'm a Cygwin newbie; spent the last 15 years in the tender clutches of hp-ux. > Currently making the jump to Cygwin. I'm looking for a place to start when > it comes to using things I was familiar with on hp-ux; rlogin, remsh, ftp, > etc. Can anybody give me some general background on these subjects in Cygwin? Yes: start by installing OpenSSH, and then read the man pages for 'ssh', 'sshd', 'sftp', etc. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README for how to set up sshd on your box (and whatever you do, *DO NOT* read any websites with 'pigtail.net' in the address; that site is long infamous for having broken instructions). You might also want Cygwin's 'telnet' package if you need to log into hosts that do not support ssh. I'm not aware of an "remsh" for Cygwin (and neither is http://cygwin.com/packages/), but the same says that "rsh" (which you still shouldn't use if you can avoid it) lives in the 'inetutils' package. Oddly enough, that seems to also be the package where the vanilla 'ftp' lives. -- Matthew "unsubscribe me plz!!" -- Newbies -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/