Quick & Easy: Cygwin SSHD and Cron

Quick & Eeasy returns in Windows flavour

SSHD Server

sshd-host-config

• Should StrictModes be used? (yes/no) yes
• Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
• Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [] press enter
• Do you want to install sshd as a service? yes
• Do you want to use a different name? (yes/no) no
• Please enter the password for user 'cyg_server: `enter your password
• mkpasswd -l -u cyg_server >> /etc/passwd
• chown cyg_server /var/empty
• chown SYSTEM /var/empty
• chmod 600 /var/empty
• net start sshd
• Now you can login with your username/password with xshell or your favorite ssh client

Crontab

• cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
• export Editor="nano"
• crontab -e
• net start cron

tips

• net start to start service
• net stop to stop service
• sc delete <service> to delete service
• cat /var/log/sshd.log to read sshd log
• cat /var/log/cron.log to read cron log

Todo:

add host keys guide to sshd

Sources (sshd), larsavery, dbaportal
Sources (cron), stockoverflow