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)