Hi all,
after ntsec became the default for cygwin (and some further changes to
ruserok()), I ran into problems running servers such as rshd depending
on .rhosts and ruserok() because I don't use ntsec and ntea doesn't
store the file's uid/gid. As a result, I can't use rshd anymore
because it compl
> Also, the directories created by Cygwin with ntsec do have
> inheritance turned on. In fact that inheritance determines the
> ACL of files created by Cygwin when ntsec is off, and also the
> ACL created by most Windows applications. Incidentally you
> can display these "stupid permissions" w
> Also, the directories created by Cygwin with ntsec do have
> inheritance turned on. In fact that inheritance determines the
> ACL of files created by Cygwin when ntsec is off, and also the
> ACL created by most Windows applications. Incidentally you
> can display these "stupid permissions" w
Thanks again for your help!
> What do you mean "setting new userids"? It is safe to turn ntsec
> off in the /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile sourced by the login
> shell. Of course the login shell itself will still have ntsec on,
> so it needs to reexec itself after turning ntsec off.
I was thinki
>> 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 ser
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
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