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Subject: Some inetutils don't work
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:55:38 -0500
From: Zdzislaw Meglicki <gustav AT beige DOT ucs DOT indiana DOT edu>

Dear Cygwin,

First, many, many thanks for having made the effort to port inetutils
to Cygwin. This is greatly appreciated.

Second, contrary to what you say in your README file,
/usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README, I cannot get rsh, rlogin and
talk to work. But I can get telnet and ftp to work. Is there some
configuration trick that I am missing?

Here is a demo of what works and what doesn't.

The Windows machine I am using is called "woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu"
and it runs Microsoft Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2. My
version of Cygwin is:

    gustav AT woodlands $ uname -a
    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
    gustav AT woodlands $

I have followed your instructions in the README, i.e., 

   1) I have run "iu-config";
   2) I have run "inetd --install-as-service" as the "administrator";
   3) I have linked cygwin1.dll to /usr/sbin, because this is where
      inetd.exe looks for it;
   4) I have run "net start inetd" as the "administrator";

At this stage I get telnet and ftp working. Beige, from which I make
the connection, is a Solaris-2.6 server:

    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:51:23 !8 $ telnet woodlands
    Trying 129.79.15.18...
    Connected to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu.
    Escape character is '^]'.

    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) (WOODLANDS) (tty0)

    login: gustav
    Password:
    =================================================================
	       Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
      CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    =================================================================

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ pwd
    /home/gustav

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ ls
    Bambosz   HPSS     Immigration   Nanotechnology      SCI 2001   bin
    GPFS      Houston  Licenses.txt  Pernambuco          San Diego  src
    Globus    IBM      Listy         QuBIC               TeX
    HPC Asia  IU PPP   My Pictures   RealNetworks_files  Woodlands

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ exit
    logout
    Connection closed by foreign host.
    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:51:46 !9 $ 

And similarly for ftp:

    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:51:46 !9 $ ftp woodlands
    Connected to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu.
    220- =================================================================
    220-            Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
    220-   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    220- =================================================================
    220 WOODLANDS FTP server (GNU inetutils 1.3.2) ready.
    Name (woodlands:gustav): gustav
    331 Password required for gustav.
    Password:
    230- =================================================================
    230-            Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
    230-   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    230- =================================================================
    230 User gustav logged in.
    ftp> pwd
    257 "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/gustav/My Documents" \
       is current directory.
    ftp> quit
    221 Goodbye.
    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:52:49 !10 $ 

But for rsh and rlogin the connection does not work:

    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:56:19 !18 $ rlogin -l gustav woodlands
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: gustav
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: Connection closed.
    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:56:57 !19 $ 

However, interstingly, the following has some effect, which to me suggests
a bug:

    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:58:03 !20 $ rlogin -l gustav AT woodlands woodlands
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: gustav
    Password:
    =================================================================
	       Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
      CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    =================================================================

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ pwd
    /home/gustav

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ ls
    Bambosz   HPSS     Immigration   Nanotechnology      SCI 2001   bin
    GPFS      Houston  Licenses.txt  Pernambuco          San Diego  src
    Globus    IBM      Listy         QuBIC               TeX
    HPC Asia  IU PPP   My Pictures   RealNetworks_files  Woodlands

    gustav AT WOODLANDS ~
    $ exit
    logout
    Connection closed.
    gustav AT beige:../gustav 13:58:25 !21 $

Observe that the connection is obtained only on the second attempt, i.e.,
the first time I type password, I get rejected. This is not a typo. This
happens every time I try it. And ONLY when I use this incorrect call to
rlogin: "rlogin -l gustav AT woodlands woodlands". 

Is there something special I should do with my Cygwin /etc/passwd entry?
At present it looks as follows:

    gustav AT woodlands $ grep gustav /etc/passwd
    gustav:*:1000:513:Zdzislaw Meglicki,S-1-5-21-2058559853-879773387-1169164804-1000:/home/gustav:/bin/bash
    gustav AT woodlands $

Best regards,
Gustav

 Zdzislaw (Gustav) Meglicki, gustav AT indiana DOT edu, Indiana University, 
 Office of the Vice President for Information Technology,
 601 E. Kirkwood Ave., Room 116, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1223, USA,
 ph: 812-856-5597, fax: 812-855-3310, http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/gustav

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