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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:52:21 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: uid mapping with rsh
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In-Reply-To:	<Pine.LNX.4.21.0103192305230.1146-100000@softserver.home.de>; from Wolfgang.Garske@t-online.de on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:26:22PM +0100

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:26:22PM +0100, Dr. Wolfgang Garske wrote:
> Hi there !
> 
> I have the following problem which I cannot solve
> with my actual state of cygwin-knowlege. So I hope
> at least you can give me a hint.
> 
> When I do login to a "cygwin host(NT)", e.g.
> "rlogin -l corinna herhost", I get a login prompt and
> after sucessful login I get the appropiate user id - fine.
> 
> When I do "rsh -l corinna herhost" I get a login prompt
> and after sucessful login I get the appropiate user id - fine.
> 
> When I do "rsh -l corinna herhost id" I get no login prompt
> and after sucessful login I get the user id of "system" - not fine,
> because I need rsh to execute commands exactly as user corinna.
> 
> Would be very kind if you could tell me how to overcome
> this behavior.

You would have to start inetd under your own user account.
No password = no change of user context with NT/W2K.

Better: Use ssh with sshd running under your user account and
RSA/DSA authentication.

Corinna

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