.rhosts on W2K w/o ntsec
Pierre A. Humblet
pierre.humblet@ieee.org
Sun Nov 17 01:04:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:37:42PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after updating to the latest version of Cygwin (1.3.15-1) including
> all other modules, rshd wouldn't accept my .rhosts file anymore
> because it's owned by the wrong owner. The error message is
> "permission denied (bad .rhosts owner)."
>
> The reason for this is obvious: I turned off ntsec, thus the .rhosts
> file is owned by whoever starts rshd (probably SYSTEM because I run it
> as a service). I'm running Cygwin on W2K/NTFS; my CYGWIN environment
> variable is "ntea nontsec".
Have you considered leaving ntsec on in the service environment but
turning it off in yours, after you get in?
Pierre
--
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/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list