Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: rshd authentication Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:03:51 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3D528857.2040008@DeFaria.com> References: <7B4F465444F8D51184B500065B381750482D62@mshyd1.hyd.deshaw.com> <20020807115243.Y3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3D51572A.6090803@Salira.com> <20020808111652.D4229@cygbert.vinschen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-64-195-250-225.telocity.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028818991 12104 64.195.250.225 (8 Aug 2002 15:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:03:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en,ru Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> rlogin/rsh always ask for the password on interactive login. >> >> That seems "different" , at least to what I was used to with HP-UX. >> Indeed there is no mention of this in the man page for rlogin except >> to say: >> >> If the remote host does not supporting Kerberos the standard Berkeley >> rhosts authorization mechanism is used. >> >> There is no Cygwin man page for rhosts however looking at >> http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/cgi-bin/unixhelp/man-cgi?rhosts I find >> >> The rlogin program falls back to the standard password-based login >> procedure if the remote authentication fails. >> >> Which would seem to suggest to me that if the remote authentication >> works then no password should be prompted for. > > You're right. It turned out that the cause is the login(1) application > which on NT systems didn't allow login w/o password. Unfortunately I > never adjusted login(1) after we introduced login w/o password > capability with Cygwin 1.3.6. I did that now and uploaded a new > version of the login package. Should be on the mirrors in some hours. Cool. Thanks Corinna. -- 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/