Thanks Larry, I found the thread, and it turns out that my problem was that the .rhosts file needs to have permission of 644. I had 666, so rshd obviously enforces that the file only be writeable by the owner. I'm told that sshd also has similar rules for it's private keys. Apparently this has nothing to do with Cygwin, and is how rshd/ssld are implemented, obviously for security.
Regards, Steven -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@;rfk.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 1:45 AM To: Reddie, Steven; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/passwd "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" field breaks non-interactive r sh At 12:53 AM 11/6/2002, Reddie, Steven wrote: >I've setup the latest Cygwin on a new machine and can do interactive rsh but >not non-interactive. I found that I can get non-interactive rsh to work if >I remove the "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" string from /etc/passwd for the user >that I wish to rsh in as. I'm sure that the problem must be elsewhere, but >this is the only information I have so far. Any ideas? Check the email archives within the last week or so. There was a discussion on just this issue which you may find useful. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/
