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                Install single-user SSH daemon as Windows service with pure msys tools
              
          
    Install single-user SSH daemon as Windows service with pure msys tools

WARNING This approach does not enable impersonation. Thus, only a single user account is able to connect through ssh - the same user we use for running the Windows service. At time of writing it seem to only be possible with cygwin or msys2 to achieve multi-user support for sshd under Windows. E.g. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Windows/SSHD
Requirements


Latest Git for Windows. I tried it with v2.6.0. (Note: with v2.5.3 sshd tried to load authorized keys from /c/.ssh instead of ~/.ssh).

Create unprivileged sshd user