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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:48:10 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with rsh
Message-ID: <20021025224810.GA282137@WORLDNET>
References: <3DB9AD4E DOT 10407 AT Salira DOT com> <3DB9C013 DOT CF6CF751 AT acm DOT org> <3DB9C44F DOT 2060606 AT Salira DOT com>
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:      
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>
> >Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the
> >password field (the second field).  You want something like this:
> >
> >someuser::11150:...
> >
> >and not something like this:
> >
> >someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:...
> >
> Wham! Good answer! It works!

Yes, but you have no security.
The cygwin mechanism that logs you in when the password is empty
is the same as with .rhosts, and different from the one
when providing a password.
Thus it looks like your .rhosts isn't setup properly.
Among other things it should only be writable by you.

Pierre


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