Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:52:21 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: uid mapping with rsh Message-ID: <20010320105221.B16527@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Wolfgang.Garske@t-online.de on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:26:22PM +0100 On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:26:22PM +0100, Dr. Wolfgang Garske wrote: > Hi there ! > > I have the following problem which I cannot solve > with my actual state of cygwin-knowlege. So I hope > at least you can give me a hint. > > When I do login to a "cygwin host(NT)", e.g. > "rlogin -l corinna herhost", I get a login prompt and > after sucessful login I get the appropiate user id - fine. > > When I do "rsh -l corinna herhost" I get a login prompt > and after sucessful login I get the appropiate user id - fine. > > When I do "rsh -l corinna herhost id" I get no login prompt > and after sucessful login I get the user id of "system" - not fine, > because I need rsh to execute commands exactly as user corinna. > > Would be very kind if you could tell me how to overcome > this behavior. You would have to start inetd under your own user account. No password = no change of user context with NT/W2K. Better: Use ssh with sshd running under your user account and RSA/DSA authentication. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple