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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:22:58 +0100
Subject: Re: Local Setup Cache & Rlogin problems
From: Brian Ling <Brian AT bglnet DOT worldonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: Sandeep Tamhankar <sandman AT interwoven DOT com>, <nhv AT cape DOT com>
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I have had similar problems to this with rlogin, I went back to cygwin-1.3.1
with everything else current and rlogin started  working again.

This was on a 95 box.

Good Luck

Brian 






on 2/7/01 10:34 pm, Sandeep Tamhankar at sandman AT Interwoven DOT com wrote:

> I concur.  Last week I upgraded everything and then the rlogin daemon
> stopped working.  (Side note: It still doesn't work; I posted info on
> this list but have only gotten one response stating they have the
> problem too, so it's not just my computer being weird).  Unfortunately,
> last week I didn't know that the old versions of packages are still
> saved in my system.  If I'd known this then, I would've reported exactly
> which modules got upgraded to cause my problems.
> 
> Hmm, it'd probably be a good idea to do this now: upon doing some
> research, I found that my login package was upgraded from 1.4-1 to
> 1.4-2.  My inetutils was upgraded from 1.3.2-11 to 1.3.2-14.  My Cygwin
> itself was upgraded from an old 1.1.8-2 to a whopping 1.3.2-1.
> 
> The symptom I'm seeing is that the rlogin actually succeeds and then
> login yells because I don't seem to have permission to execute
> /bin/bash.  But I do since it's world-readable.  And I can telnet into
> the machine and all is well with the world.  And I can open up bash
> windows on the console.  The other really weird symptom is that when I
> rlogin as a different valid username/password, it rejects the login
> attempt completely.  So I can try rlogging in as myself and getting
> permission denied from login.exe, or I get a total authentication
> failure when trying to rlog in as someone else.
> 
> This is W2k and someone on this list already mentioned that they've seen
> the same problem on W2k, although it used to work for them on NT.  If I
> can get my hands on an NT box (and some time to play with this), I'll
> try setting it up there and testing it out.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> -Sandeep
> P.S. I have a sneaking suspicion ntsec is responsible for this.  What do
> I lose if I turn ntsec off?  I think I tried it already, and it didn't
> help, but I tried so many combinations of things that I really don't
> remember at this point.
> 
> Norman Vine wrote:
> 
>> Michael A. Chase
>> 
>>> Currently, setup.exe downloads package files from whatever mirror site a
>>> user selects and then installs the packages.  As new versions are produced,
>>> they get downloaded and installed to replace the old version, but the
>>> archive files for the old version are not removed.  Eventually this may
>>> 
>> fill
>> 
>>> significant amounts of disk space with obsolete files.
>>> 
>>> I see two likely ways for handling this problem:
>>> 
>>> Does anyone see any other possibilities?
>>> 
>> 
>> 3) Some of us may want to keep the old versions for
>> various reasons
>> 
>> so IMHO any builtin archive cleaner should be non-automatic
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Norman Vine
>> 
>> 
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