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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:15:28 -0500
To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: ssh configuration that is pulling my hair out!
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At 11:03 AM 1/27/2004, Larry Hall you wrote:
>At 03:03 AM 1/27/2004, Brian Dessent you wrote:
>>Larry Hall wrote:
>>
>>> Precisely.  The idea of adding to the  FAQ for something that should be
>>> obvious goes against my grain but I'm OK with the notion if doing so
>>> addresses a problem.  But, at least to me, this one seems way off to one
>>> end of "obviousness" so I have to question the "obvious" solution too.
>>> Maybe there's a better solution because the problem isn't what we think
>>> it is.
>>
>>While I understand that Cygwin cannot be responsible for what third
>>parties say about its configuration, it shouldn't be entirely mysterious
>>why a lot of people see that site first, and then ask here.  If you
>>google for "cygwin sshd configuration" the first four hits are on
>>erdelynet.com.  I don't think it's that outrageous that someone would
>>google first, try the instructions presented in the results, and then
>>seek out the official mailing list when that doesn't work.  Or, in other
>>words, "Cygwin is cygwin, why should it matter where I saw the
>>instructions?"  I don't think it would be wasteful to add a simple FAQ
>>entry along the lines of "Q: I'm having problems with my sshd
>>configuration, can you help?  A: Yes, please read
>>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/sshd.README.  Only those instructions are
>>supported on the mailing list, if you still need help."
>
>
>
>To me, that suggests that we need to either have a way to optionally 
>start the configuration of packages from setup.exe and/or somehow queue

Ugh!                                                               ^^^^^^
                                                                    cue          

>the user into the READMEs.  This is a bit more involved to implement 
>than additions to the FAQ but it seems to me that it's much more likely 
>to eliminate the questions on this and other package configuration issues 
>that stem from 3rd party configuration advice.  But can anyone who has 
>configured sshd using erdelynet.com, for example, confirm that this is the 
>approach they took?

Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
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