William Yun Chen wrote: > Hi, I'm having some trouble installing cygwin openssh. > > I'm on windows vista ultimate, and I'm trying to follow the directions given > in "Cygwin\...release\openssh\openssh-4.7p1-2\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh" > > More specifically, I don't know exactly what I should choose when running > 'ssh-host-config' and 'ssh-user-config'. > > Ie, do I want to install sshd? What is sshd? Do I want privilege separation?
Sshd is the server, only needed if you want connections into your computer. Privilege separation is the default in ssh, there's a file in there (README.privsep) describing what it is. > This readme seems to assume that I know exactly what I want to do, and I > don't. Is there a more comprehensive readme or perhaps can you give me a > brief walkthrough the installation process? The OpenSSH site. > What I do know is that I want to set up an ssh server on my windows vista > machine so that when I'm on a linux, I can just go into the terminal, and > type in "ssh <insert ip address here>" and then look around, edit files, and > transfer files using scp just as if I was connecting to another linux > machine. Then you want sshd installed as a service. -- René Berber -- 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/