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

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Rajiv Chopra (2004-06-25 17:10 +0200)
> 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.

Are you sure of that? For instance Cygwin executables are said to run
at half the speed of their native windows clones because of the Cygwin
compatibility layer.
 
> 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?

Yes, sure, telnetd is in the inetutils package. But you shouldn't use
telnet, use ssh.

Thorsten


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