How to install a cygwin (ssh server) on a Windows 2000, WindowsXP, or Windows Server 2003. The ssh server is an emulation of the UNIX environment and OpenSSH toWindows, by Redhat, called Cygwin.

(1) Login as a user with Administrator privilege.

(2) Download cygwin's setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com/. Once completly downloaded run the setup.exe file.

There will be some basic installation information to begin. You will be selecting a server where it will download the selected files from. Select one of the locations and press next, continue till you get to the screen below.

When a selection screen comes up, click the little View button for "Full" view ,find the line "OpenSSH", click on the word "skip" so that an appears in Column B,

Find the line "cygrunsrv",click on the word "skip" so that an appears in Column B,

Click to start installing cygwin and ssh.
Size of the basic cygwin system is about 40 Meg, this may take a whileif you have a slow connection.

(3) Right click My Computer,Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables

Click the "New" button to add a new entry to system variables:
variable name is CYGWIN
variable value is ntsec tty

(4) Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced,Environment Variables

Select the Path variable and click the "Edit" button:
append ;c:\cygwin\bin to the end of the existingvariable string.

(5) Open a cygwin window (by double clicking the icon), a black screen pops open, type
ssh-host-config
When the script asks you about "privilege separation beused", answer yes.
When the script asks you about "install sshd as a service", answer yes
When the script asks you for "CYGWIN=",
your answer should be ntsec tty

(6) While you are still in the (black) cygwin screen, startthe sshd service:
cygrunsrv --start sshd
or
net start sshd

To stop the sshd service, pop open a cygwin window, type
cygrunsrv --stop sshd
or
net stop sshd

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by dpierce
last modified: 2005-03-18 04:46:29