Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:32:02 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied Message-ID: <20020306213202.C13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020306101433 DOT P13590 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <3C866A0B DOT 6040500 AT DeFaria DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C866A0B.6040500@DeFaria.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so > then who is that somebody (USER)? I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM. > It's my understanding that the only thing(s) that use login are things > like telnet/rlogin/rsh. > > Frustrated by the lack of su(1M)! Did you ever try to understand NT security? Otherwise you would know know the cause for this restriction. It's exceptionally not because we're mean! > Oh, BTW, here's a potential security problem: > > $ rsh hosta id > uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain > Admins),513(Domain > Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport),1354(Operations),1331(Software) > $ rsh hosta -l otheruser id > uid=1269(otheruser) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),513(Domain > Users),1203(Engineering),1170(Everybody),2171(Product Team),1215(Service > Group),1331(Software),1298(TDM Group) > > How did I rsh as another user and not be prompted for a password? Because you have an .rhosts file? I assume you know how rsh works on U*X systems, don't you? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/