Persistent and same Cygwin session for Windows login and ssh login?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 18 08:47:32 GMT 2023


On Aug 17 19:30, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Good evening!
> 
> How can I get a Cygwin session for one Windows login, and get the same
> Cygwin session when I log into the same Windows machine via ssh?

You can't.  Windows isolates sessions from each other.

> Also, where does Cygwin store session information?

Nowhere, really.  Sessions are a Windows thing.  We only keep a bit of
transient stuff in various shared memory regions.


Corinna


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