Re: ssh login to cygwin bash?

[Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>
> I have installed cygwin openssh and the sshd is running.
> When I log in, I get a "DOS shell":
>
> ~: uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 WIN-LS0QDOSDIBL 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:21 i686 Cygwin
> ~: ssh localhost
> admin@localhost's password:
>
> C:\users\admin>

I would actually like to know how you managed this, as I have a couple
use cases where this is what I do need...


> But I want bash as login shell. How can I configure cygwin sshd for that?

This is what I get on all of my cygwin setups where I've installed
sshd.  Do you have mintty installed?


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