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cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.

What it doesn't provide is "a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows."

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ssh -Y using Cygwin/X without needing xterm

I manage a large farm of Linux servers/desktops from a Windows desktop machine and would like to reduce the complexity of this task by not having to use xterm for X Forwarding. This is my setup: I am using the excellent ConsoleZ for managing my ssh…
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Cygwin nested groups

I've got cygwin(latest release) running on a 2012 Windows server and having problems with adding domain grups. I succesfully dealt with domain users adding them to /etc/passwd as needed. For domain groups however, I created a local group and mapped…
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Cygwin: Obtain comment field from Active Directory with mkpasswd

Running cygwin on W7x64. Since a generated /etc/passwd file is static, it has to be performed occasionally when new employees are hired. It polls Windows AD, and writes the passwd file. In the past, after running mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd it…
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How to change environment variable for already installed Cygwin services

For example, I need to switch Cygwin sshd service from 'ntsec' to 'nontsec' mode on quite a few Windows machines without re-installing the service.
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Supervisord as Windows Service on Cygwin

I am attempting to run Celery as a Windows Service using Supervisord. I followed the configuration laid out on the Celery site and here. I have set up a virtual environment to run supervisord through cygwin. I have highlighted the lines I think are…
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SSH Tunnel - Proxy Not Working From Remote Location (Login is working)

I have just set up a Cygwin SSH server and successfully tunneled to it from a remote location. Logging in works but when I point my browser to localhost 8888 (sock 5), all connections are refused. How is it that I can log in, then not browse from a…
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scp using a password on the command line

I am trying to write a script that will deploy a build created on my desktop machine (windows/cygwin) to a machine in my test environment (linux). I would like to use scp to copy the build to the target machine. The only account on the target…
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Download cygwin packages from a predefined list (on Windows 7)

I have a very long list of cygwin packages that I need to download (for various reasons I cannot install directly from the internet, instead I need to download the cygwin packages for later installation). Is there any way of doing this by providing…
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publish over ssh jenkins

I have been working on a small project where need to copy files from one windows machine to another through jenkins in a secure way. I have heard about publish over ssh plugin in Jenkins. I tried to set that up but no luck. Did anybody do that and…
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ssh server not accepting public/private keys (Cygwin)

I am trying to connect my computer to a ssh server (running on Windows 7) using public/private keys. I have generated the keys and used the necessary permissions for files: chmod 700 .ssh chmod 600 authorized_keys and have also added the public key…
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Permissions error when using WebPi under Cygwin SSH

Trying to install web package in WebPI via Cygwin SSH (for automation) returns this error: There was an error reading IIS configuration schema from 'C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\schema\'. When launched from the desktop Cygwin it works…
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How do I grant select, insert privileges in Postgres on Cygwin?

How do I grant permissions in Postgres? I followed the documentation, however it is not working. $ psql tmadev psql (9.2.4) Type "help" for help. tmadev=# grant all privileges on database tmadev to tma; GRANT tmadev=# \z sample …
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Cygwin does not see Windows share as folder - no “d” attribute?

I migrated this question from StackOverflow as it really fell outside the scope of programming questions they generally prefer, so hopefully I'll find a more suitable audience here... I've installed Cygwin 1.7 on a Windows Server 2008/64 box in…
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using strings (the command) to only find english words

My problem in a nutshell is that I want the list of english words that are output when I run 'strings' on a binary file. Currently the file I run it on dumps a lot of trash to the screen, and I'm only interested in words that are, well, words. …
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X11 tunnelling through SSH from Fedora 3 server to Windows Vista client fails to work

Okay, I've tried using Xming and PuTTY, as well as Cygwin/X and Cygwin ssh, and it is not working. I've been able to run X applications locally, so it's not a client-side X problem. I've connected to the server using ssh -X user@server and ended up…
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