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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:17:49 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: norbert DOT bladt AT usa DOT net
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Subject: Re: OpenSSH cygwin port
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norbert DOT bladt AT usa DOT net wrote:
> o RSA does just work as long as I start the sshd.exe as a user
>   but not as a NT-Service

Hey, wonderful! This is easy to solve: Just read the README!
It contains some surprising facts...

> o I can't use input redirection,
>   neither on NT like: more <file.txt
>   nor on a Linux client, like: ssh -l user NTBox <dird.command
>   The result is on NT: more hangs
>   on Linux: there is no output returned, not even if I do an output
>      redirection, too.

No problem here.

> I am using cygwin-1.1.1.

Don't use 1.1.1, please update to 1.1.2 since 1.1.1 has a
small but nifty binmode/textmode bug ;-)

> Another problem was the output "illegal user" which just meant
> a problem in /etc/passwd. This, AFAIK, must be in UNIX format
> if / is mounted in binmode, otherwise /bin/sh (or /winnt/system32/cmd)
> ends with a ^M and that "shell" does, of course, not exist.
> I didn't try a work-around with another : as a separator.

This is the 1.1.1 problem.

> I am doing something completely wrong or is this simply a problem
> in the OpenSSH port ?
> 
> Using OpenSSH between Linux, Solaris and Sinix Systems is no
> problem, at all, incl. RSA authentication.

Might be that all three systems don't have to use WinNT security?!?

> Because I can't send this message from my normal user account - our
> Mail server is on the open relay list - I am sending this from
> usa.net and hope that it works.

Seem to work.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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