[PATCH] Cygwin: Change service name to cygsshd

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 27 09:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 26 22:00, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 6:30 PM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jan 26 18:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:07 PM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Microsoft hijacked the sshd service name without asking.
> > > >[...]
> > Well, yes. I'm a bit concerned that Cygwin users will muck with the
> > Microsoft sshd to enable the Cygwin daemon they personally expect, and
> > cause their own IT departments to scream bloody murder when they
> > realize some developer replaced the approved management daemon on
> > their laptop. I'm bringing popcorn for that one.
> 
> That's what my patch recitfies, no?

Apart from the fact that this discussion makes no sense, considering
that my patch does exactly that, renaming our Cygwin sshd service to
"cygsshd" so as not to collide with the Microsoft service called "sshd",
I'd like to point out *again* that Cygwin provides an sshd for over
16 years, and the service is called "sshd" just as long.

Now Microsoft comes along and hijacks the service name for their own
sshd without bothering to ask or even inform us at Cygwin.  That's
very disappointing.

To me Cygwin sshd is much more useful than Microsoft's sshd can ever
become.  It's fully integrated in a POSIXy environment, which is where I
spent my work and private computer time in.

For other people, MSFTs OpenSSH may be more useful, but here's the deal:

We're talking about two pretty different environments.  They are just
potentially running on the same underlying OS, that's all.  They serve
different purposes and different needs.  If you question Cygwin, you can
just as well question WSL.

And of course I can't tell you how many people use Cygwin's sshd.  How
am I supposed to know that?  I'm not the one collecting usage data from
my user's machines, right?

The bottom line is that it looks like the only thing we can do is to
move ourselves aside, and that bothers me.

But, hey, asking doesn't hurt, right?
https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1331


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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