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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:24:15 -0600
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From: Bret Jordan <jordan AT coe DOT utah DOT edu>
Subject: Open SSHD
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First off in answer to someone's question yesterday here is how I have 
gotten opensshd to work on NT, note I am still having problems with one 
aspect of it but I will explain that later on.

Here is my step by step


copied sshd.exe		to 	c:\local\sbin\sshd\sshd.exe
copied ssh-keygen.exe	to	c:\local\sbin\sshd\ssh-keygen.exe

give current user "Act as OS and the other special rights"

run	c:\local\sbin\sshd\ssh-keygen -d -b 1024 -f c:\etc\sshd_host_dsa_key

NOTE: I was unalble to get it to work with a passphrase other than 
<NULL>.  I will keep working on this, or maybe someone knows how to make 
this part work.

Then I put my config file at c:\etc\sshd.conf
And passwd file at c:\etc\passwd


Then run 	c:\local\sbin\sshd\sshd -d -f \etc\sshd.conf

and it works.
All I have in my config file right now is the following (I am still working 
over some problems):

Port 			22
ListenAddress 	x.x.x.x
HostDSAKey		/etc/sshd_host_dsa_key
KeepAlive		no

The passwd file looks like
someusername::1:10:User Name:/home/someusername:/winnt/system32/cmd.exe

NOTE: You can use base.exe in place of cmd.exe example:
someusername::1:10:User Name:/home/someusername:/bin/bash.exe

NOTE: You will need to modify some aspects when you want to run it as a 
service.

Does this help?


Problem:
---------------
I can make a connection to a nt box running opensshd.  I can run most all 
dos/nt commands.  I can even run most all of the bin utils.  The problem 
come around when I try to run a program that is a command character program 
(edit, vi, emacs -nw, pmon, etc).  When I try to run these programs it just 
causes the connection to hang.  When you run vi it causes the connection to 
lock up and on the box running sshd the window in which sshd was started 
now looks like the VI window.  However, it is frozen as well and will not 
allow any input.  You have to kill the vi process which then kills the ssh 
connection.

Question:
Can you, and if so, how do you run command character programs through the 
ssh connection?  Is there some sort of ENV variable I need to set?

Thanks

Bret
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Bret Jordan                       Dean's Office
LAN Manager              College of Engineering
801.585.3765                 University of Utah
              jordan AT coe DOT utah DOT edu
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