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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:39:24 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with rexecd
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In-Reply-To: <3AE52100.4E2CDD24@srd.fr>; from raf@srd.fr on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:45:20AM +0200

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:45:20AM +0200, Raphael Duenas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the followingerror message with rexecd :
> 
> 0 [main] in.rexecd 3336 spawn_guts: GetTokenInformation: Win32 error 6
> /bin/bash: Bad file number
> 
> The inetd.conf entry is the following :
> 
> exec    stream  tcp    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/in.rexecd.exe
> in.rexecd.exe
> 
> What can I do?

Porting rexecd would be a good start. The rexecd was never really
ported since it's not used that often and it's very insecure.

Another choice would be to use ssh.

Corinna

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