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Subject: RE: rlogind vs. smb
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:20:27 +0100
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cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
...
> 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 ?
...

Did You also check if the smb mounts mangle the contents of the file such as appending a <CR> to the lines?

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