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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:55:07 -0500
From: Ramasubramanian Ramesh <rramesh AT ti DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.
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>Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
>
>> Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su
>> but login will work.  I really do not need to login as different user.
>
>I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph
>of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says
>
>Under NT/2K/XP, login(1) is _not_ supposed to work on the command line
>to change user context!  Though you're able to tweak user permissions
>to get login(1) working that way, that's NOT officially supported.
>
>> However, I see that xinetd does not work as it should. It also
>> misteriously dies with some sort of permission denied message. So when I
>> did a xinetd -d to see the transcript of an attempt to telnet, I saw
>> something similar to login failure.  So I decided to try a simple
>> experiment with login. But I really need inetd/telnet/ftp to work.
>
>>From your cygcheck, you have no services installed.  How are you running
>xinetd?  You can't just run it as "xinetd &" because under Windows,
>regualr user accounts do not have the privileges necessary to switch
>user credentials.  You need to install it as a service running as
>SYSTEM.  Services are the analog of daemons in the unix world.
>
>Brian

Brian,

Thank you for raising the important point of services. I am not much of 
an expert in windows and thus did not even know about "services" package 
or its need. I also do not know much about SYSTEM/ntsec and how win xp 
works. Thus I expected setup.exe to  install services or anything else 
needed by deafult when I choose inetd/xinetd. Thus I did not know that I 
need to run the daemons any different.

My fault in not reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README is due to the 
way I looked for docs. In Linux the docs are placed under 
/usr/share/doc/<command_name>. Thus I looked for /usr/share/doc/login... 
I should have done a find. I will be more careful next time.

Regards
Ramesh






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