Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/03/10:32:12
I have had similar problems to this with rlogin, I went back to cygwin-1.3.1
with everything else current and rlogin started working again.
This was on a 95 box.
Good Luck
Brian
on 2/7/01 10:34 pm, Sandeep Tamhankar at sandman AT Interwoven DOT com wrote:
> I concur. Last week I upgraded everything and then the rlogin daemon
> stopped working. (Side note: It still doesn't work; I posted info on
> this list but have only gotten one response stating they have the
> problem too, so it's not just my computer being weird). Unfortunately,
> last week I didn't know that the old versions of packages are still
> saved in my system. If I'd known this then, I would've reported exactly
> which modules got upgraded to cause my problems.
>
> Hmm, it'd probably be a good idea to do this now: upon doing some
> research, I found that my login package was upgraded from 1.4-1 to
> 1.4-2. My inetutils was upgraded from 1.3.2-11 to 1.3.2-14. My Cygwin
> itself was upgraded from an old 1.1.8-2 to a whopping 1.3.2-1.
>
> The symptom I'm seeing is that the rlogin actually succeeds and then
> login yells because I don't seem to have permission to execute
> /bin/bash. But I do since it's world-readable. And I can telnet into
> the machine and all is well with the world. And I can open up bash
> windows on the console. The other really weird symptom is that when I
> rlogin as a different valid username/password, it rejects the login
> attempt completely. So I can try rlogging in as myself and getting
> permission denied from login.exe, or I get a total authentication
> failure when trying to rlog in as someone else.
>
> This is W2k and someone on this list already mentioned that they've seen
> the same problem on W2k, although it used to work for them on NT. If I
> can get my hands on an NT box (and some time to play with this), I'll
> try setting it up there and testing it out.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> -Sandeep
> P.S. I have a sneaking suspicion ntsec is responsible for this. What do
> I lose if I turn ntsec off? I think I tried it already, and it didn't
> help, but I tried so many combinations of things that I really don't
> remember at this point.
>
> Norman Vine wrote:
>
>> Michael A. Chase
>>
>>> Currently, setup.exe downloads package files from whatever mirror site a
>>> user selects and then installs the packages. As new versions are produced,
>>> they get downloaded and installed to replace the old version, but the
>>> archive files for the old version are not removed. Eventually this may
>>>
>> fill
>>
>>> significant amounts of disk space with obsolete files.
>>>
>>> I see two likely ways for handling this problem:
>>>
>>> Does anyone see any other possibilities?
>>>
>>
>> 3) Some of us may want to keep the old versions for
>> various reasons
>>
>> so IMHO any builtin archive cleaner should be non-automatic
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Norman Vine
>>
>>
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