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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:04:29 -0400
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>,
   "elfyn mcbratney" <emcb_exposure AT hotmail DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: proposed CYGWIN-SSHD.HOWTO doc
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At 08:52 AM 10/10/2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>elfyn schrieb:
>
> > I have taken a little while this morning to write a doc on how to setup sshd
> > as a service under windows nt/2000/xp to help people new to cygwin or people 
> > experiencing problems. Really want others input and experience in setting it 
> > up. Maybe be added to the OpenSSH dist. Corinna???
>
>This paragraph:
> >  Your CYGWIN environment variable needs to be set to 'tty' at least and
> >   if you want chmon/and or chown functionality 'ntsec ntea tty'. The nt*
> >   options should only be used on NT systems with NTFS partitions housing
> >   CYGWIN. warning: using the nt* options on 9x/Me systems can create large
> >   un-removable files on your system... CYGWIN=ntsec ntea tty
>
>Running SSHD as a service under SYSTEM account only works iff you're using
>CYGWIN=ntsec, not because of ch... functionality but because of switching
>the user context to the remote user who is logging into the server.


Right.  I haven't had a chance to read through this document yet but I would
bring up another issue with the above quoted paragraph.  The "ntea" and 
"ntsec" options have no affect on 9x/Me systems.  See 

Why doesn't chmod work?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC44

for the full scope on this.



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