This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Unable to login through telnet via 1.3.18-1
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:52:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: Unable to login through telnet via 1.3.18-1
- References: <3E262084.5070502@Salira.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:01:24PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Recently updated to 1.3.18-1 and telnet/rlogin/etc have stopped working.
> inetd is running as a service just like before. The problem now is that
> I cannot authenticate! No password works:
>
> $ telnet $(hostname)
> Trying 192.168.1.121...
> Connected to adefaria.SALIRA.COM.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) (adefaria) (tty7)
>
> login: adefaria
> Password:
> Login incorrect
> login: Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Tried several times with what I know is my correct password. When I do
> the same telnet to a machine running 1.3.17 it works fine.
>
> Another interesting thing is:
>
> $ passwd --status
> passwd: unknown user adefaria
So... did you check your passwd and group files? Regenerate them.
I have no problems connecting with telnet so it's probably something
with these files.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
Red Hat, Inc.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/