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Re: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer


At 11:10 AM 6/25/2004, you wrote:
>I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I was very 
>pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and get faster runtimes 
>than on our SUN servers at work.
>
>What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes on my 
>computer.  Is it possible to set up Cygwin such that he can telnet to my machine 
>and run a process?


Sure.  Install the inetutils package.  But you'd be better off with openssh
in terms of security.  Don't forget to read the Cygwin READMEs in 
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin.



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