sshd on Windows

sshd on Windows

[Larry Ploetz]

Forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this sort of question (and if 
so, if anyone knows a more appropriate one, I'd appreciate it!).

We use ssh on Unix systems to run "batch" jobs using a horrible 
scheduling product that I won't name. The horrible scheduling product 
(which I'll refer to as HSP) is just a multi-system cron replacement, 
with the added attraction that if a job finished (e.g.) successfully, 
that will trigger a successor job (on any system the HSP is installed 
on). For systems that don't run that many jobs, rather than install the 
HSP on it, we run a job from a system the HSP is installed on to ssh to 
a system that it isn't installed on  to run the job. Something like:

NodeA (HSP installed)
    Job1: ssh -l userid NodeB somecommand

Now they want to run a script in a job on a Windows system after some 
job on a Unix system finishes successfully, and which in turn may 
trigger a third job. I suggested looking into any secure way of 
triggering a script to be run on a Windows system as a particular userid 
(regardless of whether that userid is logged in (owns the display?) at 
the time the job is run) and getting some indication of success/failure, 
and they wanted to know if sshd is available on Windows.

So my questions are:

1) Can I point the Windows administrators to a url for an sshd they can 
download and run w/out compiling? The cygwin DLL would be necessary?
2) What Windows would it run on? (Obviously one that supports multiple 
logins)
3) Is there documentation for it (e.g., how to set up a .shosts file for 
a given userid), or would they be asking lots of questions on this forum?
4) Would this sshd do what I'm suggesting they do?

Many thanks in advance; any advice would be appreciated. Please cc my 
email address as I don't read this mailing list regularly.

Thanks,
- Larry




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Re: sshd on Windows

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Larry Ploetz schrieb am 2001-09-04, 12:33:

>Forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this sort of question (and if 
>so, if anyone knows a more appropriate one, I'd appreciate it!).
[...]
>So my questions are:
>
>1) Can I point the Windows administrators to a url for an sshd they can 
>download and run w/out compiling? The cygwin DLL would be necessary?

To install it from cygwin mirrors: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Some instructions: http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin.asp
If you need to run scripts, there will be needed some more stuff
than only ssh and cygwin.

>2) What Windows would it run on? (Obviously one that supports multiple 
>logins)

NT is recommended (NT4 or NT5).

>3) Is there documentation for it (e.g., how to set up a .shosts file for 
>a given userid), or would they be asking lots of questions on this forum?

http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin.asp
There is also a ssh mailinglist there:
http://tech.erdelynet.com/maillist.asp

>4) Would this sshd do what I'm suggesting they do?

It does what every other sshd on unix does, too.

>Many thanks in advance; any advice would be appreciated. Please cc my 
>email address as I don't read this mailing list regularly.

Gerrit


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Re: sshd on Windows

[want_2_learn_freebsd]

http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/  <-- here is a simple solution.  I
use on all my windows servers.  Console Support sux, but to reload my dns
(on windows system but this will work on Unix too) I have a batchfile called
reload_ns1.bat like so:

@echo off
ssh superfreak@ns1.domain.com reload-dns.bat

And so that bat would log in, execute reload-dns.bat and exit.  If you just
want to get ssh on windows as a client get:
http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/  and install just the client.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Ploetz" <Larry@Stanford.edu>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: sshd on Windows


> Forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this sort of question (and if
> so, if anyone knows a more appropriate one, I'd appreciate it!).
>
> We use ssh on Unix systems to run "batch" jobs using a horrible
> scheduling product that I won't name. The horrible scheduling product
> (which I'll refer to as HSP) is just a multi-system cron replacement,
> with the added attraction that if a job finished (e.g.) successfully,
> that will trigger a successor job (on any system the HSP is installed
> on). For systems that don't run that many jobs, rather than install the
> HSP on it, we run a job from a system the HSP is installed on to ssh to
> a system that it isn't installed on  to run the job. Something like:
>
> NodeA (HSP installed)
>     Job1: ssh -l userid NodeB somecommand
>
> Now they want to run a script in a job on a Windows system after some
> job on a Unix system finishes successfully, and which in turn may
> trigger a third job. I suggested looking into any secure way of
> triggering a script to be run on a Windows system as a particular userid
> (regardless of whether that userid is logged in (owns the display?) at
> the time the job is run) and getting some indication of success/failure,
> and they wanted to know if sshd is available on Windows.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) Can I point the Windows administrators to a url for an sshd they can
> download and run w/out compiling? The cygwin DLL would be necessary?
> 2) What Windows would it run on? (Obviously one that supports multiple
> logins)
> 3) Is there documentation for it (e.g., how to set up a .shosts file for
> a given userid), or would they be asking lots of questions on this forum?
> 4) Would this sshd do what I'm suggesting they do?
>
> Many thanks in advance; any advice would be appreciated. Please cc my
> email address as I don't read this mailing list regularly.
>
> Thanks,
> - Larry
>
>
>
>
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Re: sshd on Windows

[Frank Wuebbeling]

> http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/  <-- here is a simple solution

Hmpf. I just tried it. What it does not say is that it is a cygwin in
disguise and overrides all entries in the registry mount table for cygwin.
If you already have a cygwin, the installation quietly ruins it :-(.

Frank


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RE: sshd on Windows

[Mark Bradshaw]

Read the readme.  It includes that very warning.  It also has a basic check
in the installer to warn you about installing it over cygwin, if it detects
that cygwin's already installed.  You should have received a warning message
telling you not to proceed.  If not, my apologies.  Feel free to email me
the details and I'll try to figure out what went wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Wuebbeling [ mailto:wuebbel@math.uni-muenster.de ] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:41 AM
To: Larry Ploetz; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd on Windows 



> http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/  <-- here is a simple 
> solution

Hmpf. I just tried it. What it does not say is that it is a cygwin in
disguise and overrides all entries in the registry mount table for cygwin.
If you already have a cygwin, the installation quietly ruins it :-(.

Frank


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sshd on windows

[Jennifer Lai]

Hi,
   Does anyone know if there is a cygwin.dll free ssh server for windows?

Thanks,
Jennifer


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Re: sshd on windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:58:15AM -0500, Jennifer Lai wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a cygwin.dll free ssh server for windows?

If there was, why would that be a useful topic for this mailing list?

cgf

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Re: sshd on windows

[DePriest, Jason R.]

There are several.

You can purchase a Windows SSH server from F-Secure or SSH
Corporation.  The servers support SSH2 and SFTP.  I haven't looked at
the F-Secure version in a long time, but the SSH Corporation version
supports PKI in addition to user name / password.

If you google for 'ssh server win32' you can get lots of pointers.  I
have no idea which of the shareware / freeware ssh servers are using
cygwin; so you can research that on your own.

-Jason

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:58:15 -0500, Jennifer Lai <[REMOVED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Does anyone know if there is a cygwin.dll free ssh server for windows?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
> 
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RE: sshd on windows

[Diego Ernesto Malpica Chauvet]

Yes there is =)
Install the package  net/openssh and use ssh-host-config to configure it.

Regards.



-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Jennifer Lai
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:58 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: sshd on windows

Hi,
   Does anyone know if there is a cygwin.dll free ssh server for windows?

Thanks,
Jennifer


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Re: sshd on windows

[Cliff Hones]

>    Does anyone know if there is a cygwin.dll free ssh server for windows?

Funnily enough, I originally read this as "Is there a free ssh server for
windows which uses cygwin.dll" and then realised my mistake when I saw the
first couple of replies.  But following the last reply I'm not sure
what the OP's intended meaning was.  However, it's been answered
both ways now - use Cygwin's openssh package, or else it's OT for this
list.

-- Cliff


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