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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:57:52 +0200
From: Yuval Kogman <yuval AT hyperroll DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: rlogind vs. smb
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Howdy!

We have some windows machines running Cygwin to which we'd like to connect via
rsh.

It all works well if the passwd entry's home field points to a local directory,
and the .rhosts file in that directory contains the proper values.

The accounts are hosted on a linux based file server. The unixes get the home
directory via NFS, and the fileserver also shares via samba.

If you set the home to //fileserver/share in the cygwin box's /etc/passwd, then
.rhosts suddenly stops being valid, and you're asked for a password. What's
funny is that if you put the right password in, then a shell is started, and
the pwd is the share, and the files therein are available, including .rhosts.

So basically:

1. does anybody know why rlogind doesn't like SMB shares?
2. does anybody know where rlogind logs it's complaints to?  3. while we're
added, how do you get rlogind to be promiscuous? Or actually, what's the cygwin
equivelent of /etc/pam.d/rlogind ?

Thanks!

-- 
Yuval Kogman, Sysadmin
HyperRoll Israel, Ltd.

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