Corrected: How I got ssh to work, and sshd to work from the command line on NT

["Clark Sims" <csims at templartrading dot com>]

>I left out one step. I forgot to mention editing user rights. Here is the
>corrected install:
>
>I have had a number of problems getting ssh/sshd to work and I have posted
>the problems in this mail list. I have everything working now, (except that
>I havn't installed sshd as a service). The steps where:
>
>1) I deleted my cygwin directory, and removed cygwin from the destop.
>2) I reinstalled from the internet http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>3) I had to create the home and user names by hand
>mkdir /home
>mkdir /home/Administrator
>4) I opened the file /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.9p1.README in emacs
>5) following the instructions I ran:
>       /usr/bin/ssh-host-config  -d
>      /usr/bin/ssh-user-config -d
>
>I included the -d option becuase initially the files did not run correctly.
>I had to go back and create the home directory before I could get them to
>run correctly.
>
>5a)  Edit the user rights:
>
>The following commands brought up the user right management screen:
>
>Start, ProgramTools, UserManager
>Policy, UserRights
>
>I then added:
>  "Act as part of the operating system"
>  "Replace process level token"
>  "Increase quotas"
>  "Logon as a service".
>
>As per the instructions.
>
>6) from a bash box
>cd /usr/sbin
>./sshd.exe -d
>
>7) from another bash box
>ssh -l Administrator localhost
>
>and it worked. I could log on and start a bash session.
>
>8) I tried adding the appropriate public keys to the authorized_keys file
in
>the /home/Administrator/.ssh directory,  but to no avail, I could not log
in
>from another machine.
>In order to log in from another machine I had to change the sshd_config "To
>install for logon to different user accounts"
>
>diff sshd_config sshd_config~
>
>39c39
>< RSAAuthentication no
>---
>> RSAAuthentication yes
>42c42
>< PasswordAuthentication yes
>---
>> PasswordAuthentication no
>
>9) from a bash box on the first nt box
>./sshd.exe -d
>
>10) from a bash box on another nt box
>ssh -l Administrator   first.comp.ip.address
>
>where first.comp.ip.address, is the first computers ip address
>
>11) I am then prompted for a pass word, and I can log in
>
>12) from a bash box on the first nt box
>./sshd.exe -d
>
>13) from a linux box
>ssh -l Administrator first.comp.ip.address
>
>I could then log in!   Linux was talking to NT!
>
>14) I forgot to mention that the reverse direction, using ssh to log onto a
>linux box was easy. This works with no problems.
>
>It looks like everything is working perfect!
>
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