Installing OpenSSH for Windows Server - How to get it working

n order to get host based authentication with OpenSSH to work under Windows server it is necessary to run the server with privilege separation instead of as the system account.

• Either download and install OpenSSH for Windows,
• I'm assuming you installed the package in C:\Program Files\OpenSSH
• Create an empty folder in C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\var\empty which will be the OpenSSH server user's home directory.
• Create the server users account:
  net user sshd password /add /fullname:"sshd daemon" /homedir:"C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\var\empty"
• Add the server users account (sshd) to the Administrators group.
• net localgroup Administrators sshd /add
• C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin>mkpasswd -l -u sshd >> ..\etc\passwd
• Finally start/restart the sshd daemon
• C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin>net stop opensshd
• C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin>net start opensshd

More details: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~smp/projects/ssh-windows/

How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows Vista

To make hibernation available, follow these steps:

• Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
• In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
• When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
• At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and then press ENTER.
• Type exit, and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.
  
• Easy step - [windows button + R] and in the prompt enter the above command.

To disable hibernate options follow the above steps except the command should be "powercfg.exe /hibernate off"