1This package describes important Cygwin specific stuff concerning OpenSSH. 2 3The binary package is usually built for recent Cygwin versions and might 4not run on older versions. Please check http://cygwin.com/ for information 5about current Cygwin releases. 6 7================== 8Host configuration 9================== 10 11If you are installing OpenSSH the first time, you can generate global config 12files and server keys, as well as installing sshd as a service, by running 13 14 /usr/bin/ssh-host-config 15 16Note that this binary archive doesn't contain default config files in /etc. 17That files are only created if ssh-host-config is started. 18 19To support testing and unattended installation ssh-host-config got 20some options: 21 22usage: ssh-host-config [OPTION]... 23Options: 24 --debug -d Enable shell's debug output. 25 --yes -y Answer all questions with "yes" automatically. 26 --no -n Answer all questions with "no" automatically. 27 --cygwin -c <options> Use "options" as value for CYGWIN environment var. 28 --port -p <n> sshd listens on port n. 29 --user -u <account> privileged user for service, default 'cyg_server'. 30 --pwd -w <passwd> Use "pwd" as password for privileged user. 31 --privileged On Windows XP, require privileged user 32 instead of LocalSystem for sshd service. 33 34Installing sshd as daemon via ssh-host-config is recommended. 35 36Alternatively you can start sshd via inetd, if you have the inetutils 37package installed. Just run ssh-host-config, but answer "no" when asked 38to install sshd as service. The ssh-host-config script also adds the 39required lines to /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services. 40 41================== 42User configuration 43================== 44 45Any user can simplify creating the own private and public keys by running 46 47 /usr/bin/ssh-user-config 48 49To support testing and unattended installation ssh-user-config got 50some options as well: 51 52usage: ssh-user-config [OPTION]... 53Options: 54 --debug -d Enable shell's debug output. 55 --yes -y Answer all questions with "yes" automatically. 56 --no -n Answer all questions with "no" automatically. 57 --passphrase -p word Use "word" as passphrase automatically. 58 59Please note that OpenSSH does never use the value of $HOME to 60search for the users configuration files! It always uses the 61value of the pw_dir field in /etc/passwd as the home directory. 62If no home diretory is set in /etc/passwd, the root directory 63is used instead! 64 65================ 66Building OpenSSH 67================ 68 69Building from source is easy. Just unpack the source archive, cd to that 70directory, and call cygport: 71 72 cygport openssh.cygport all 73 74You must have installed the following packages to be able to build OpenSSH 75with the aforementioned cygport script: 76 77 zlib 78 crypt 79 openssl-devel 80 libedit-devel 81 libkrb5-devel 82 83Please send requests, error reports etc. to cygwin@cygwin.com. 84 85 86Have fun, 87 88Corinna Vinschen 89Cygwin Developer 90Red Hat Inc. 91