Cygwin Password handling and Inetd configuration

[Phil Smith]

Nicholas,

It's great to get a quick reply, but it seems somewhat arrogant to stated 
"RTFM" and that 1.3.11-3 is "old news" -- especially since the 1.3.12-1 
announcement says nothing about password or inetd fixes (perhaps this is a 
little joke ?) Yes, I HAVE read the documentation and the huge number of 
problems other users have had getting "login", "in.telnetd" or "in.ftpd" 
working for various accounts -- Administrator, anonymous, Guest, etc.

a) Much of the online documentation is out of date, and the recent (late 
July) recommendations for others to try options like "mkpasswd -u $USER" 
(also in http://cygwin.com/docs.html) aren't even supported, according to 
the utility. The -v option on mkpasswd reports it is tje current 1.20.

b) I've got the CYGWIN variable set to "netd" on my NT4 system. I've tried 
an installation on Win2K with similar problems.

c) I have home directories for all accounts, and done
"mkpassd -l > /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -l > /etc/group" (these are the 
same, incidentally as what the default setup created.

d) Getting "clued in" as you say from the inetd documentation makes no 
sense, considering that inetd itself DOES work. I noted that the there is no 
discussion of port mapping -- it does not cover this topic at all. It seems 
/etc/services just isn't supported. Of course, I can try looking at the 
source code, but I was hoping that Red Hat or others in the Cygwin community 
could share more than "clues."

e) If the /bin/passwd manual isn't there, this is a bug. It should be 
reconciled with openssl passwd. However, if NEITHER allows password 
changing, that is a BIG TIME bug. I could live with this, but it seems worse 
that ALL defined NT user account passwords are being rejected by login, 
telnet or ftp.

Serious help would still be appreciated.

    "Clueless" Phil.


>From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com>
>To: Phil Smith <aphilsmith@hotmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Cygwin Password handling and Inetd configuration
>Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:11:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- Phil Smith <aphilsmith@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a reference regarding the inetd configuration and password
> > setup
> > for Cygwin ? I've installed the current version (which uname reports as
> > 1.3.11).
>
>Read the Cygwin users guide, its on the same page as the one you somehow
>found this mailing list on.  FYI, 1.3.11 is old news, rerun setup.exe to
>get more up to date.
>
> > At issue:
> >
> > 1. The /etc/inetd.conf seems conventional, but there is no /etc/services
> >
> > file installed, or documentation for port assignments. Is there some
> > other
> > file or method to re-assign TCP ports or new services ? If /etc/services
> >
> > isn't used, what is the correct configuration file ?
>
>Open find in explorer and have it search for services.  It should be
>located in your windows directory.
>
>Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetd.README to be "clued" in.
>
> > 2. There is no longer a man page for /bin/passwd -- only a page for the
> > openssl front end. Neither seems to work to change a user password and
> > allow
> > that user to log-in via the distribution in.telnetd or in.ftpd via
> > /bin/passwd, or by using openssl passwd -crypt and manually adding the
> > result to /etc/passwd.
>
>See the online user's guide.
>Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
>
> > 3. Compiling other ftpd source code and substituting it for the in.ftpd
> > in
> > /etc/causes a core dump on getpeername() or getsockname().
> >
>
>You'll have to figure out that one your self...
>
>Cheers,
>Nicholas
>
>P.S. - Keep all replies on the list.
>
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