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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:52:40 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Unable to login through telnet via 1.3.18-1
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:01:24PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Recently updated to 1.3.18-1 and telnet/rlogin/etc have stopped working. 
> inetd is running as a service just like before. The problem now is that 
> I cannot authenticate! No password works:
> 
> $ telnet $(hostname)
> Trying 192.168.1.121...
> Connected to adefaria.SALIRA.COM.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) (adefaria) (tty7)
> 
> login: adefaria
> Password:
> Login incorrect
> login: Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Tried several times with what I know is my correct password. When I do 
> the same telnet to a machine running 1.3.17 it works fine.
> 
> Another interesting thing is:
> 
> $ passwd --status
> passwd: unknown user adefaria

So... did you check your passwd and group files?  Regenerate them.
I have no problems connecting with telnet so it's probably something
with these files.

Corinna

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