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: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:00:12 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Security hole? Request to list for help re: inet.exe on win2k/win98. Tried various FAQs all past week. Message-ID: <20010404090012.Q956@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <001101c0a4f7$827bc240$0100000a@cs.cuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001101c0a4f7$827bc240$0100000a@cs.cuc.edu>; from dpomery@cuc.edu on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:07:31PM -0800 On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:07:31PM -0800, Derek Pomery wrote: ^^^^^^ Your machine is a month back, somehow. > Trouble is, no authentication occurred. You have no password given in your /etc/passwd. That's needed on W9x to have password authentication. Use `crypt' to create a password and copy it into the pw_passwd field. > Here is my /etc/passwd at the moment: > nemo::500:544::/home/nemo:/bin/bash 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