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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:16:52 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rshd authentication Message-ID: <20020808111652.D4229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <7B4F465444F8D51184B500065B381750482D62 AT mshyd1 DOT hyd DOT deshaw DOT com> <20020807115243 DOT Y3921 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <3D51572A DOT 6090803 AT Salira DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D51572A.6090803@Salira.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >rlogin/rsh always ask for the password on interactive login. > > That seems "different" , at least to what I was used to with HP-UX. > Indeed there is no mention of this in the man page for rlogin except to say: > > If the remote host does not supporting Kerberos the standard > Berkeley rhosts authorization mechanism is used. > > There is no Cygwin man page for rhosts however looking at > http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/cgi-bin/unixhelp/man-cgi?rhosts I find > > The rlogin program falls back to the standard password-based login > procedure if the remote authentication fails. > > Which would seem to suggest to me that if the remote authentication > works then no password should be prompted for. You're right. It turned out that the cause is the login(1) application which on NT systems didn't allow login w/o password. Unfortunately I never adjusted login(1) after we introduced login w/o password capability with Cygwin 1.3.6. I did that now and uploaded a new version of the login package. Should be on the mirrors in some hours. 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/