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 17:45:42 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rshd authentication Message-ID: <20020808174542.I4229@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> <20020808111652 DOT D4229 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20020808152243 DOT GA2044 AT tishler DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020808152243.GA2044@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:22:43AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Corinna, > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:16:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > 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. > > I just tried the above and it works great for normal and disabled > accounts. Unfortunately, it still prompts for a password when I try to > rlogin into the system (i.e., LocalSystem) account. However, rsh to the > system account with a specified command works without requesting a > password: > > $ rsh system AT tishlerjason id > uid=18(SYSTEM) gid=18(SYSTEM) groups=0(Everyone),544(Administrators) > > Is this the expected behavior? That's intentionally. The same is valid on U*X systems for the root account. If you need interactive SYSTEM access, use sshd with pubkey. 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/