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 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:48:10 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with rsh Message-ID: <20021025224810.GA282137@WORLDNET> References: <3DB9AD4E.10407@Salira.com> <3DB9C013.CF6CF751@acm.org> <3DB9C44F.2060606@Salira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DB9C44F.2060606@Salira.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: > > >Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the > >password field (the second field). You want something like this: > > > >someuser::11150:... > > > >and not something like this: > > > >someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:... > > > Wham! Good answer! It works! Yes, but you have no security. The cygwin mechanism that logs you in when the password is empty is the same as with .rhosts, and different from the one when providing a password. Thus it looks like your .rhosts isn't setup properly. Among other things it should only be writable by you. Pierre -- 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/