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From: "BB" <canofspam AT att DOT net>
Subject: Re: inetd/telnet on win98 vs WinXP
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:28:18 -0600
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I have run across unanswered questions in this newsgroup that I wished had
been answered, so FYI...

Apparently, if the environment variable USER is defined when inetd is
started, telnetd will not prompt for the user id.  I added "-e USER=cyguser"
to the cygrunsrv options on WinXP and it caused telnet to skip the user id
prompt and immediately prompt for the password.

"BB" <canofspam AT att DOT net> wrote in message
news:b5d380$hvk$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org...
> When I use inetd Win98 and telnet to it, I get a prompt for a password.
> When I telnet to inetd on XP, it prompts for a user id and then a
password.
> Is there any reason for this inconsistency?  Is there anything I can do to
> make them consistent?
>
> My guess is that is has something to do with the user id inetd is running
> as.  On Win98, I start inetd from as bash shell with a user id.  On WinXP,
> inetd is started as SYSTEM I think.
>




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