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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:33:51 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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-------- Original Message --------

Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> YIKES!!!!!  There it is,  and right there in the users guide no less....
> not only that, but in a section I've actually read a number of
> times!!!!!.....  Well,  that does explain almost everything that is going on
> ( though, it seems  to have gotten even tighter since the 1.3.12 release
> that allows me to access net drives if I specify a passwd during rlogin( as
> mentioned below)).  The perl script is actually running as a service; as a
> user with net access rights.
> I hate to ask this without looking at the inetd/xinetd code first:  But is
> there any chance that context switching will be "fixed" to allow net access
> too someday?  


Not without some mechanism to provide the password to Windows, no.  If
someone would like to take this statement as a challenge and provide an
alternate solution, please do. :-)



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