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Re: CVS does not prompt for password with rsh

Kelly,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:32:57PM -0500, Grizzle, Kelly wrote:
> Is this desired behavior, or am I missing something?

Do you have a null password field for this user in your /etc/passwd
file?  If so, then the following applies:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01052.html

> Should I disable rsh, rlogin, etc... on my server and require access
> via ssh instead?

IMO, yes.

Jason

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