Re: sshd on win2k [revisit]

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:10:40PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote:
> > 
> > On 30 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > >
> > >Its been a while since I checked on the availability of packages that
> > >installs sshd on a win2k.
> > >
> > >Is it still amatter of tinkering or is there a package out that just
> > >installs it, and allows win2k to run a sshd daemon?
> > >
> > it is still quite far from automatic.
> > As you know, there are two separate problems there:
> > 1) giving  the right permissions to the users;
> > 2) installing sshd as a service.
> > 
> > Regarding 2), I saw at least one GPL-ed program that happily
> > installs and manages itself as a service, etc, namely WinVNC
> > (see http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)
> > It most probably could be used as a code sample to build
> > such a thing for sshd.
> 
> Corinna's version of inetd also does this.  I (actually not me, but I
> was an accessory to the crime) stole that code for ipc-daemon and now IT
> does this too.  The problem, IIRC, is that Corinna is trying to keep the
> OpenSSH code as close to the official version as possible -- thus, most
> changes are submitted right back to the openSSH people for official
> inclusion.
> 
> But the strange hacks necessary for windows service installation are
> meeting with, err, resistance.  So, either we maintain an official but
> external patch, or we just continue status quo.
> 
> Is that about right, Corinna?

Yep. And since I have no problems to install sshd as a service in about
5 minutes I'm suffering an extrem letargy to change that. Personally
I hate the special service code. I'm very happy with the SRVANY solution.

Corinna

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