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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> inetd is not designed to run under cygrunsrv. It installs (and, fwiw, 
> removes) itself as service. One condition to get this right is to read 
> the documentation first, which, I think, is always a good idea:
>
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README
>
> There you'll see that not long ago a special option -D has been added 
> to allow running inetd under cygrunsrv. But it's not necessary, just 
> read on in the above document.
>
> Did you call the /bin/iu-config script before starting inetd? Or, in 
> other words, do you have a valid /etc/inetd.conf file?
Sounds like time for a /bin/inetd.config similar to 
/bin/ssh-host-config, /bin/cron.config, etc...
> Btw., when running on 2K3, the SYSTEM user has not enough privileges 
> to switch the user context w/o password, which will spoil using rsh a 
> bit... See the /bin/sshd-host-config script from the openssh package, 
> which installs not only the sshd serice, but also creates a new user 
> account called "sshd_server", which has the necessary privileges to do 
> that. You could remove the inetd service and recreate it again after 
> running /bin/sshd-host-config like this:
>
> cygrunsrv -R inetd
> cygrunsrv -I inetd -u sshd_server -w <sshd_server's password> ...
>
> Or you just change the user account in the Services MMC Snap-In.
I'd argue it's also becoming time for a replacement for the Local System 
Account for sshd, inetd and crond, perhaps named daemon instead of 
sshd_server which seems decidedly ssh biased. IOW maybe a little config 
script to create the daemon user - which the necessarily privileges like 
sshd_server - which each/any of the above mentioned config script could 
call in order to set up the service. In fact I think this should be the 
way to go even on older systems such as 2000 and XP instead of relying 
on Local System Account. Then it's a little cleaner that all Cygwin 
services requiring any specific permissions runs under the daemon local 
user...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?


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