On Oct 13 11:20, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 11 16:20, Wells, Roger K. wrote: > >>When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd > >>server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be > >>appreciated. > >>thanks > > > >Maybe that's it: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00250.html > > This is bad. Suppose I am a cygwin user on a machine to which I do not > have Administrator privileges. Until now, I could run a personal sshd > on a unique port, and connect back to my windows box. Now I can't -- > because, as a non-Admin, I can't create the sshd user. (and this use > case is not a hypothetical; I do this on the job often)
You can create a fake sshd account in /etc/passwd, using your own account. Other than that, I agree. It's not exactly a nice change. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/