cygwin cookbook

Supported Platforms

Windows

Providers

cygwin_package

Install or remove cygwin packages.

Example usage:

cygwin_package 'openssh' do
    action :install
end

<table>
<tr>
<th>Actions</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>:install</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>:uninstall</td>
</tr>
</table>

Recipes

cygwin::default

Installs cygwin

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['download_path']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Path to download the cygwin installer executable</td>
<td><tt>Chef::Config['file_cache_path']</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['home']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Path to install cygwin</td>
<td><tt>C:\cygwin</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['site']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Mirror to use for downloading packages</td>
<td><tt>http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['packages']</tt></td>
<td>Array<String></td>
<td>An optional list of cygwin packages to install</td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

cygwin::ssh

Installs cygwin and configures openssh

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['ssh']['sshd_user']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>User to run sshd as</td>
<td><tt>cyg_server</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['cygwin']['ssh']['sshd_passwd']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Password for the sshd user</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

License and Authors

Author:: Ryan Larson (ryan.mango.larson@gmail.com)

Author:: Ben Jansen (aogail@w007.org)