Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/31/02:36:13
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
> Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su
> but login will work. I really do not need to login as different user.
I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph
of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says
Under NT/2K/XP, login(1) is _not_ supposed to work on the command line
to change user context! Though you're able to tweak user permissions
to get login(1) working that way, that's NOT officially supported.
> However, I see that xinetd does not work as it should. It also
> misteriously dies with some sort of permission denied message. So when I
> did a xinetd -d to see the transcript of an attempt to telnet, I saw
> something similar to login failure. So I decided to try a simple
> experiment with login. But I really need inetd/telnet/ftp to work.
From your cygcheck, you have no services installed. How are you running
xinetd? You can't just run it as "xinetd &" because under Windows,
regualr user accounts do not have the privileges necessary to switch
user credentials. You need to install it as a service running as
SYSTEM. Services are the analog of daemons in the unix world.
Brian
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