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From: "Brett Serkez" <bserkez AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rlogin or telnet from Unix to WinXP
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Use secure shell (openssh), the r protocols are deprecated due to
security concerns.  Secure shell is a drop in replacement for the r
protocols (mostly) with much better security and has become the
standard.

There is a secure shell deamon that can be run under Cygwin and should
do what you want.

Brett

On 6/3/06, Freddy Jensen <jensen AT adobe DOT com> wrote:
>
> This is a question that I am sure many folks have the
> answer to, because I can imagine that people do this
> all the time. I just have never had the time to get
> it set up:
>
> I wan't to be able to rlogin (and rshd) from my Unix
> machine to my WinXP machine. I have cygwin installed
> on the WinXP machine so I want to rlogin to the home
> directory in my cygwin install dir and run a shell
> (bourne shell or c-shell). I also want to be able to
> run 'rsh' from my unix machine to execute commands
> in my cygwin home directory.
>
> But, currently I cannot do that because there are
> no rshd, rlogind, or telnet daemons in cygwin.
>
> I did try to enable the telnet service in
> Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services
> and I added Telnet port 23 to the Windows
> Firewall Exception list.
>
> But that just allows me to telnet into the WinXP
> machine and get a batch cmd session.
>
> I really want to be able to rsh to the WinXP machine
> and have full access to everything in the cygwin
> "world" on the machine.
>
> I know that the "Unix Services for Windows" product
> from Microsoft has the rsh and rlogind programs, but
> someone told me that it will cause problems to have
> "Unix Services for Windows" installed together with
> cygwin, so I hesitate installing it.
>
> So my question is:
>
> Is there a cygwin package that I can download
> and install that will give me what I want?
>
> Help and advise will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Freddy
>
>
>
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> 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA, Ph: (408) 536-2869
> Email: jensen AT adobe DOT com, URL: http://www.adobe.com
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