One issue with cygwin is setting up a user id. I was not able to change 
cygwin's user id on my win2k system at work. It defaults to administrator.
John Abreau wrote:

> mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I do as well, but I still ran into trouble; when statically linked
> > with 0.9.5a, PuTTY couldn't connect, when statically linked with 0.9.6
> > everything works as expected.  Unfortunately, we do have several windows
> > users here that need to be able to access the servers.
> 
> When I'm forced to use Windows, I like to install cygwin, which includes
> OpenSSH and has an XFree86 add-on. In the past, before I tried cygwin,
> I would have recommended SecureCRT for Windows users; now I'd be
> tempted to offer cygwin first, with SecureCRT as a secondary option.
> 
> Of course, cygwin could be difficult for the commandline-phobic to
> handle. Does anybody know of any Windows gui ssh/scp/sftp front-ends
> that use cygwin under the hood?
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