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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:15:14 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SSH setup documentation (was Re: running ssh server under WinXP)
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> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:35:21AM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> > >I don't know what the problem is specifically- But I do know that
> > >people have the latest cygwin and ssh working with winxp.  Have you
> > >been to http://tech.erdelynet.com or checked the archives of the
> > >ssh-l AT erdelynet DOT com mailing list?
> >
> > Isn't it rather a shame that we have a whole web site and mailing list
> > set up for dealing with ssh problems and no one has attempted to
> > actually fix the problems in the ssh setup process?
> >
> > It's a mystery why people think that they need to work around a free
> > software project when they could be contributing to the project
> > directly.

IIRC, erdelynet.com is intended to help folks set up a *minimal* cygwin
environment to allow ssh'ing in to a machine to get a command prompt
(not bash shell).  This is something we specifically do *not* support
OOB.  ("install everything" is not minimal...)

--Chuck

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