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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:00:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Security hole? Request to list for help re: inet.exe on win2k/win98.  Tried various FAQs all past week.
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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

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