Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/07/12:57:11
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:11PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:44:22AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >And rsh is a dangerous service anyway. If you don't want it,
> > >just remove the matching line in /etc/inetd.conf and use ssh.
> >
> > Ah but I *want* rsh. I just want it to work correctly. :-)
>
> Could this be the cause?
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01052.html
It is. So, if somebody changes the pw_passwd field (which should
contain the "unused on nt/2k/xp" entry, rsh behaves exactly is
it does on a U*X system if a user has no password entry. Good to
know.
Thanks,
Corinna
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