Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040625151620.0333e2d0@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:19:42 -0400 To: Rajiv Chopra , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:10 AM 6/25/2004, you wrote: >I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I was very >pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and get faster runtimes >than on our SUN servers at work. > >What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes on my >computer. Is it possible to set up Cygwin such that he can telnet to my machine >and run a process? Sure. Install the inetutils package. But you'd be better off with openssh in terms of security. Don't forget to read the Cygwin READMEs in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/