Hi OpenBSD Team,
I just wanted to take a moment to send you an update for the
http://www.openss
h.com/windows.html page. OpenSSH runs on Windows
NT-based
operating systems under the Interix subsystem. Interix is a
Posix.1 and
Posix.2 compliant UNIX-like environment for the NT kernel
which runs
parallel to the more famous client-server runtime subsystem
(CSRSS or
Win32).
Microsoft acquired the technology from Softway Systems. It
was formerly
known as OpenNT and in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista
and Longhorn
Server it has a marketing name of the Windows Subsystem for
Unix-based
Applications. The version for Windows 2000 through Windows
Server 2003
(non-R2) is bundled inside of the Services for UNIX 3.5
package.
You might be interested to know that OpenNT was originally
based upon 4.4BSD
lite and the current Interix code base is heavily based on
OpenBSD code.
Interix runs almost entirely as user mode services over the
NT kernel,
similar to a microkernel architecture.
It's a mystery to my why Microsoft doesn't ship OpenSSH
themselves. Instead,
it is maintained by Interopsystems which receives some
subsidization from
Microsoft.
Services for UNIX
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix
/sfu
Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/unixco
mponents
Free binary distribution of OpenSSH for Interix
htt
p://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
Cheers.
Brian A. Reiter
WolfeReiter, LLC : Thoughtful Computing
[http://www.thought
fulcomputing.com]
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