Need information on creating service user to connect from the Agent server to Windows hosts for installing agents on remote

[Subramanya Narayanaswamy]

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for the response.

Basically I have an Cloud control Agent server on LINUX host and Cloud control would like connect to Windows hosts over an SSH protocol. So for that I have installed CYGWIN on my client windows machine and tried to configure ssh-host-config. It is taking default SYSTEM user ( example: if my local account is SUBBU) and generating the profile files. Now I can user the below command to connect to windows host over SSH using username and password that is SYSTEM default.

ssh user1@IP

But here I want to create a separate user to authenticate from Cloud controller to target client with ssh setup and password based authentication.

Hope I answered your question?

Subramanya
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdaemon@yandex.ru] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:08 AM
To: Subramanya Narayanaswamy <subramanya.narayanswamy@oracle.com>; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Need information on creating service user to connect from the Agent server to Windows hosts for installing agents on remote

Greetings, Subramanya Narayanaswamy!

> I'm Trying to setup Cygwin installation on windows server 2012 and 2016.
> I'm installing latest Cygwin version with packages openssh,openssl,zip,unzip.

> When I run Cygwin.bat file and try to configure SSH host service to 
> connect from Agent server on this windows host, I don't get a prompt 
> to create CYGWIN user at all. By default it is taking the SYSTEM default user for authentication.

That's how it's done.

> But I want create a new Cygwin(let's say agentuser user) using the 
> command ssh-host-config by running the Cygwin.bat file.

Why?

> Could you please help on how to setup separate user with right SSH 
> permission please? It would be great help.

What you want to use that user for? If you want to use it for maintenance, just create a user and `passwd -R` it. Then you can use SSH key to login as that user.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 1:37:01

Sorry for my terrible english...