+This package describes important Cygwin specific stuff concerning OpenSSH.
+
+The binary package is usually built for recent Cygwin versions and might
+not run on older versions. Please check http://cygwin.com/ for information
+about current Cygwin releases.
+
+Build instructions are at the end of the file.
+
+===========================================================================
+Important change since 3.7.1p2-2:
+
+The ssh-host-config file doesn't create the /etc/ssh_config and
+/etc/sshd_config files from builtin here-scripts anymore, but it uses
+skeleton files installed in /etc/defaults/etc.
+
+Also it now tries hard to create appropriate permissions on files.
+Same applies for ssh-user-config.
+
+After creating the sshd service with ssh-host-config, it's advisable to
+call ssh-user-config for all affected users, also already exising user
+configurations. In the latter case, file and directory permissions are
+checked and changed, if requireed to match the host configuration.
+
+Important note for Windows 2003 Server users:
+---------------------------------------------
+
+2003 Server has a funny new feature. When starting services under SYSTEM
+account, these services have nearly all user rights which SYSTEM holds...
+except for the "Create a token object" right, which is needed to allow
+public key authentication :-(
+
+There's no way around this, except for creating a substitute account which
+has the appropriate privileges. Basically, this account should be member
+of the administrators group, plus it should have the following user rights:
+
+ Create a token object
+ Logon as a service
+ Replace a process level token
+ Increase Quota
+
+The ssh-host-config script asks you, if it should create such an account,
+called "sshd_server". If you say "no" here, you're on your own. Please
+follow the instruction in ssh-host-config exactly if possible. Note that
+ssh-user-config sets the permissions on 2003 Server machines dependent of
+whether a sshd_server account exists or not.
+===========================================================================
+
+===========================================================================
+Important change since 3.4p1-2:
+
+This version adds privilege separation as default setting, see
+/usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep. According to that document the
+privsep feature requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
+
+The new ssh-host-config file which is part of this version asks
+to create 'sshd' as local user if you want to use privilege
+separation. If you confirm, it creates that NT user and adds
+the necessary entry to /etc/passwd.
+
+On 9x/Me systems the script just sets UsePrivilegeSeparation to "no"
+since that feature doesn't make any sense on a system which doesn't
+differ between privileged and unprivileged users.
+
+The new ssh-host-config script also adds the /var/empty directory
+needed by privilege separation. When creating the /var/empty directory
+by yourself, please note that in contrast to the README.privsep document
+the owner sshould not be "root" but the user which is running sshd. So,
+in the standard configuration this is SYSTEM. The ssh-host-config script
+chowns /var/empty accordingly.
+===========================================================================
+
+===========================================================================
+Important change since 3.0.1p1-2:
+
+This version introduces the ability to register sshd as service on
+Windows 9x/Me systems. This is done only when the options -D and/or
+-d are not given.
+===========================================================================
+
+===========================================================================
+Important change since 2.9p2:
+
+Since Cygwin is able to switch user context without password beginning
+with version 1.3.2, OpenSSH now allows to do so when it's running under
+a version >= 1.3.2. Keep in mind that `ntsec' has to be activated to
+allow that feature.
+===========================================================================
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