On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rachan Malhotra wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question. My > apologies if I am intruding into your mailbox. > > After starting sshd in cygwin on my winXP machine, do I need to setup > user accounts? I am unable to ssh into my windows machine (using my > regular windows account) from elsewhere because, I think, I do not have > users set up. Can someone tell me how to do that ? > > Thanks > Rachan
"man mkpasswd", "man mkgroup". Also, you should use ssh-host-config to set up the sshd server. For mor information, see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. Igor P.S. This may or may not be the right place, depending on what instructions you used to set up your sshd service. If you used the abovementioned README file, this is the right place. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/