Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/01/08:28:19
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:51:47AM -0000, piotr cygwin wrote:
> I need also some advice from your experience: as I said, I run WinNT4, but
> still with FAT filesystems, and I wonder if I should enable or not ntsec ? I
> mean: personnaly I don't really mind about ownership and permissions of
> files and processes, but I plan to install and compile various applications,
> and maybe some developement tools are sensitive these points. Your opinion ?
ntsec is useless with FAT, except if you want to use different accounts.
However, I don't understand the decision to use FAT. NTFS is more
reliable and faster. On big partitions you're losing disk space using FAT
due to the big blocksize.
> Also: I try to rlogin from cygwin to a remote Unix machine. I've added an
> entry in the .rhost file of the remote machine:
> <name of the PC-cygwin> <my cygwin username>
> but I'm still prompted with the password. Is it also an ntsec issue ?
No, the permissions of your .rhosts file have to be 0600.
> [BTW: is it possible to rlogin to cygwin from another machine ?]
Sure.
Corinna
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