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Re: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Rajiv Chopra <rajiv dot chopra at sw dot ca>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:19:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer
- References: <loom.20040625T170826-540@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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