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RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer


Rajiv Chopra wrote:
> I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I
> was very pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and
> get faster runtimes than on our SUN servers at work.
> 
> What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes
> on my computer.  Is it possible to set up Cygwin such that he can
> telnet to my machine and run a process?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Rajiv

I would suggest installing openssh from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe.

After that you can run the ssh-host-config script to install it as a
service.

After making sure the other guy's user ID is in your /etc/passwd file,
you can have him log on your system locally and get to a bash prompt to
initialize his environment.  Then have him run ssh-user-config to get
the ssh stuff for his user account created.

After that, he should be able to ssh into your system and do what he
needs to do.

-Jason

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