Using Switch.exe
switch.exe
was written by Mark Bradshaw and is part of the
Network Simplicity OpenSSH package.
It uses cmd.exe
normally or if it detects command line options
will switch to /bin/sh
. Grab a copy of the source from their
now unsupported package and
compile this.
Installation
Place the resulting executable in
C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin
and for those users applicable change
the password fields in C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\etc\passwd
to
/bin/switch
.
Additional Cygwin Libraries
Since switch.exe
uses /bin/sh
, which requires
some additional Cygwin libraries to run.
- cygiconv-2.dll
- cygintl-8.dll
- cygncurses-8.dll
- cygreadline6.dll