I can login using ssh and putty now.

LMAO!
When I run "startx" X windows starts on the machine not in putty.
However, I'm not logged on to the machine as root it does all that for 
me DOE!
So anyone who walks up to the machine can now do anything they want to 
as "root". I'm totally sure I don't want my Son who is 9 running 
anything on my Linux box as "root".

This is from the Putty User Manual.
***
In order to use this feature, you will need an X display server for your 
Windows machine, such as X-Win32 or Exceed. This will probably install 
itself as display number 0 on your local machine; if it doesn't, the 
manual for the X server should tell you what it does do.
***
So Putty does require an XTerm to be installed on the machine. If I have 
an Xterm installed why would I use Putty? It would be redundant and take 
resources.

Lets go back to Cygwin and look at that.


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