X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:02:00 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Siegfried Heintze cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: OpenSSH for Non Administrators (Attn: OpenSSH maintainer) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Please don't hijack an unrelated thread for your questions. If you want to ask a question, post a new message instead of replying to one. Also, , and please don't make . On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Siegfried Heintze wrote (with irrelevant quote deleted): > I looked in http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#1.1 as reference by > c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh/README and I'm having trouble finding the > document that explains how to set ssh up as a service on a windows server. Because you're looking at the generic OpenSSH README, whereas you should be looking at the platform-specific (Cygwin) one. "cygcheck -l openssh | grep README" shows that there is one in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin -- that's the one you ought to have used. > Can someone please point me to the correct document? -> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README . > c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh/README said to refer to the INSTALL > document but I see no such in c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh. Is my > installation incomplete? This is arguably a packaging bug. Corinna, care to patch the official README to point to the Cygwin-specific one (or simply add an INSTALL file that points to it?). > There seems to be a lot of information in "man sshd" and "info sshd" but I > could not find where it explains to start it up as a service. That's because the documentation is for stock OpenSSH, and has no Cygwin-specific parts. > No wait: it says it is normally started in /etc/rc but my cygwin > installation has no such directory. Don't I have to do something with > cygrunsrv or some such utility? Yes, but not by hand. > Where is the documentation on ssh-host-config that Damian is using > below? I tried man and info with no luck. Did you try running it? :-) Seriously, with a --help option? > Can cygwin ssh be used with the -X option to open an X session on a > windows server? Yes. X forwarding works just fine. > Can cygwin ssh be used with VNC to open a VNC session on a remote > server? I have successfully open a session using plain "RealVNC" server > on the windows server (from red hat 8) and would like to do it securely > with ssh. Yes. I use a shortcut to the following batch file with RealVNC: @echo off cd C:\Program Files\RealVNC vncviewer.exe | c:\cygwin\bin\ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5901 %1 cat and select "localhost:0" as the VNC server. The pipe (and the "cat" command) are needed to make sure that ssh waits for vncviewer to exit. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/