How to login to another Unix workstation or Cygwin PC

[Matthew Woehlke]

Steve Boyd wrote:
> I'm a Cygwin newbie; spent the last 15 years in the tender clutches of hp-ux.
> Currently making the jump to Cygwin.  I'm looking for a place to start when
> it comes to using things I was familiar with on hp-ux; rlogin, remsh, ftp,
> etc.  Can anybody give me some general background on these subjects in Cygwin?

Yes: start by installing OpenSSH, and then read the man pages for 'ssh', 
'sshd', 'sftp', etc. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README for how 
to set up sshd on your box (and whatever you do, *DO NOT* read any 
websites with 'pigtail.net' in the address; that site is long infamous 
for having broken instructions).

You might also want Cygwin's 'telnet' package if you need to log into 
hosts that do not support ssh.

I'm not aware of an "remsh" for Cygwin (and neither is 
http://cygwin.com/packages/), but the same says that "rsh" (which you 
still shouldn't use if you can avoid it) lives in the 'inetutils' 
package. Oddly enough, that seems to also be the package where the 
vanilla 'ftp' lives.

-- 
Matthew
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