On Wednesday 23 March 2016 18:35:22 George N. White III wrote:
> Cygwin has become pretty robust, but there are some fundamental problems
> with file permissions/attributes.   There is a technical document that goes
> into
> the gory details, but the basic rule of thumb is that you are safe if you
> do all
> the work in Cygwin, but problems can arise if your workflow requires mixing
> cygwin and Windows apps.  Enterprise level environments do tricks with
> Windows attributes/permissons that cause grief.  In my case, I often got
> "access denied" after a file had been touched by Windows apps, and the
> Cygwin (POSIX} permissions required by shh for my ~/.ssh directory were
> being translated to Windows permissions that then gave "access denied"
> in Cygwin's interpretation (e.g., back to POSIX) of the Windows
> permissions.

That's thr sort of experience I've had with cygwin in the past. Having said 
that, I haven't tried it in a *long* time.

I am still looking for a solution to provide me with a working sftp server 
which is really the only bit I need from SSH (*) but for now I'm making do 
with sharing the folder from the Win7 box and mounting it using a fstab entry 
on the server.

(*) it would be nice to have ssh access to the server so that I could 
integrate/automate other tasks using Perl and Net::SSH
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