Inetd 1.3.2-14 problems

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:47:35PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded to cygwin 1.3.2 including the 1.3.2-14 inetutils.
> Everything except rshd works as well or better than it did before.  But now,
> when I try an interactive rsh to my cygwin1.3.2 machine, I can't for the
> life of me get beyond the passwd: prompt;  all I ever get is "Password
> Incorrect" regardless of what I type in....   I tried regenerating the
> passwd file (mkpasswd -d  and again with  mkpasswd -l)  and group files and
> ui-config files ,  I tried changing the passwd file  /bin/bash to /bin/sh
> (which fixed a similar problem on earlier releases).  I didn't have this
> problem with inetutils 1.3.2-11 since I went back to cygwin 1.3.1 (with the
> 1.3.2-11 inetutils) on one of my machines I no longer have this problem
> there.   But I'd like to solve this problem on 1.3.2-14   has anyone got any
> suggestions?

For some reason I can't reproduce that. BTW, it's not related to rshd
but to rlogind since rsh connects to rlogind when an interactive
sessions is started. In theory you should see the same effect when
using rlogin on the client side.

However, a typical reason for that problem is starting inetd under
an user account which may not switch user context.

Try the following. Try to login from another machine interactively
using rsh or rlogin but don't type in a password when it asks for
a password. Instead of, simply do nothing.
Then start a local interactive session on the server side and call
`ps -e'. You should see something like that:

$ ps -e
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1648       1    1648       1648    ?   18 15:02:33 /usr/sbin/inetd
      892    1648    1648        892    ?   18 15:02:33 /usr/sbin/inetd
      816     892    1648       1572    ?   18 15:11:51 /usr/sbin/in.rlogind
     1112     816    1112       1608    2   18 15:11:51 /usr/bin/login
     1240       1    1240       1240  con  100 15:11:54 /usr/bin/tcsh
      136    1240     136       1636  con  100 15:11:55 /usr/bin/ps

Is the UID of inetd and the subsequent processes 18 as well for you
(which is the LocalSystem account)?

Corinna

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