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Re: inetutils-1.3.2-2 on Cygwin 1.1.1
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:40:21PM -0500, Andrea Malagoli wrote:
> >By the way, if I may suggest, this part should be emphasized in the
> >documentation, since it is not emphasized upfront. For example, I had
> >to look at the mailing list to find out the details about the local
> >security rules to enable login. Still, this is a most promising
> >development, and very useful for someone like me who has to live with
> >two OSs.
>
> A patch to the documentation with the wording that you suggest would
> be most welcome.
I have attached a new version of inetutils-1.3.2.README.
If it's ok, I will upload it to sourceware.
Corinna
This package is the actual port of inetutils-1.3.2 to Cygwin 1.1.1.
The base of that release is the port of Sergey Okhapkin.
Some additional patches are done to allow smooth working with
the current cygwin release and especially Windows NT service manager
and NT security.
The important changes in brief
==============================
- inetd:
Under W9X inetd can be started from a shell prompt or from the
autostart folder.
Under NT/W2K inetd must be started from service manager. It
must not be started via SRVANY but it has two new options
to install or remove it as service:
inetd --install-as-service
inetd --remove-as-service
When you already have an older version of inetd installed,
please remove the service before installing the new one.
After you have installed inetd it will be started automatically
on reboot. Manually starting and stopping is possible via
net start inetd
net stop inetd
Current caveat: inetd is visible twice in the process list.
This is currently needed to work correctly with the service
manager. This should be solved in a future release.
If you don't start inetd as service under LocalSystem but under
another account, you have to care that that account has several
user rights set in the user manager resp. local/domain security
policy mmc snap in:
"Act as part of the operating system"
"Replace process level token"
"Increase quotas"
"Logon as a service"
Note that administrators do not have all that user rights set
by default!
For all application started via service manager the following
restrictions are valid:
- The environment variable CYGWIN must be set in the system
environment to be active from start on.
- The system environment variable PATH must contain the path
to the directory which contains the cygwin1.dll.
- No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
authentication.
- ftpd:
Under NT/W2K ftpd is now able to change user context with the
help of NT security. This is useful mostly when using all features
of the ntsec option of cygwin. The 'S-' and 'U-' fields in
pw_gecos are taken into account as it's described in
the 'login.README' file.
- ftp:
ftp reports to be a UNIX system, so binary mode is ON by default
with most servers.
What is working?
================
ftp
ftpd
inetd
rcp
rlogin After EOF the user has to enter RETURN twice to get back
to the prompt.
rlogind
rsh
rshd Works only once per 10 minutes. This seems to be
related to some winsock error because rshsvc from
the NT resource kit has the same problem.
syslog
syslogd Superfluous for NT because syslog output is generated anyway.
talk
talkd
telnet
telnetd
uucpd
What is not yet working?
========================
rexecd Invalid handle error
tftp Permission errors
tftpd Permission errors
Please send requests, error reports etc. to cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com.
Have fun,
Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
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