Re: inetd/telnet on win98 vs WinXP

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
BB, The mailing list archives are an important source of Cygwin documentation. Whenever a question is answered on the mailing list, the whole user community benefits. So, thank you for taking the time to provide this answer for the archives. To the inetutils maintainer: perhaps this could go int

Re: inetd/telnet on win98 vs WinXP

2003-03-20 Thread BB
I have run across unanswered questions in this newsgroup that I wished had been answered, so FYI... Apparently, if the environment variable USER is defined when inetd is started, telnetd will not prompt for the user id. I added "-e USER=cyguser" to the cygrunsrv options on WinXP and it caused tel

inetd/telnet on win98 vs WinXP

2003-03-20 Thread BB
When I use inetd Win98 and telnet to it, I get a prompts for a password. When I telnet to inetd on XP, it prompts for a user id and then a password. Is there any reason for this inconsistency? Is there anything I can do to make them consistent? My guess is that is has something to do with the use