Notes on ssh in Cygwin
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2014.04.25
Date  : 2014.10.24
Date  : 2017.10.30

Introduction
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  This article contains notes on using ssh in Cygwin.

Could not create directory '/home/user/.ssh'
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  To fix this error edit /etc/passwd in Cygwin and change the HOME
  directory for the user.

Setup sshd server
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  1. Install the openssh package.
  2. Start cygwin shell as Administrator and run

    # ssh-host-config

  3. Make sure /etc/passwd and $HOME are properly set.
  4. Run

    # net start sshd

  or

    # cygrunsrv -S sshd

  5. Set up Windows Firewall to allow incomming connections to port
  22.

  Configuration files of sshd are in /etc. To query the service use:

    # cygrunsrv --query sshd

Use pageant
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  One can use pageant with ssh in cygwin. For this download and
  install ssh-pageant [1]. Add

    # ssh-pageant
    eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -r -a "/tmp/.ssh-pageant-$USERNAME")

  to ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc.

References
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  1: https://github.com/cuviper/ssh-pageant