Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:29:38 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: login Message-ID: <20020205222938.F30027@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020205191503.81791.qmail@web14208.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020205191503.81791.qmail@web14208.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:15:03AM -0800, Ling F. Zhang wrote: > to add "security" in my cygwin prompt in XP, I edited > the batch file, and instead of calling bash, I > commented out that line and added login to it...then I > realized one "bug", login quits after 300 seconds, and > let user in just like that! woh...that's not "Secure" > isn't it? anyone explain? or is it just a known bug > that no one fixed? Nope. The bug is to use login for that purpose. Login is only supported for being called by services as telnet or rlogin from users with root like permissions (SYSTEM). Follow the links you got from Larry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/