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Is there any decent SSH daemon on Windows? And what shell does/would it run? cmd.exe?

Some people dislike it but I use Cygwin when I want access to the various unix standard tools on a Windows box (including the openssh daemon).

The setup.exe is both the installer and the package manager.

I recommend trying out Mintty for Cygwin if you haven't already. I love it.