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fyi, this is all about trying to get sshd to accept incoming connections. I
want to use winscp into my xp box to move files.

I am very confused about what password sshd would use - does it use windows
authentication or does it expect to find passwords in /etc/passwd? Can I
choose? 

Thanks!!


dsacks wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've used cygwin before, but for the first time I did mkpasswd and mkgroup
> and got it so that when go to a cygwin prompt, my id actually shows as my
> windows username and I end up in /home/myusername. Woohoo.
> 
> wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it is
> owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights.
> 
> How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world
> in cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows. 
> 
> Another thing worth mentioning, I am running windows xp sp2 and it is part
> of a domain. I am a domain user. I am also a member of Administrators on
> the computer.
> 
> Help?
> 

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