On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > > Rajiv Chopra wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Rajiv > > > > I would suggest installing openssh from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe. > > > > After that you can run the ssh-host-config script to install it as a > > service. > > > > After making sure the other guy's user ID is in your /etc/passwd file, > > you can have him log on your system locally and get to a bash prompt to > > initialize his environment. Then have him run ssh-user-config to get > > the ssh stuff for his user account created. > > > > After that, he should be able to ssh into your system and do what he > > needs to do. > > > > -Jason > > You might also want to mention that the relevant mounts should be system > mounts, not user ones (i.e., install for "All Users", not "Just Me")...
Would a generous soul volunteer to add that to ssh-host-config? At the same time make sure that /etc/passwd and group are readable by the daemon, or by everybody, and that id -u isn't 400 and id -g not 401 (mkgroup). Just emit a big WARNING if there is a problem. THANKS^1000 Pierre -- 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/
