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Re: .rhosts on W2K w/o ntsec
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 21:54:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: .rhosts on W2K w/o ntsec
- References: <3DD56926.4040207@csgsystems.com>
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
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