On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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.
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