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Some inetutils don't work


Dear Cygwin,

First, many, many thanks for having made the effort to port inetutils
to Cygwin. This is greatly appreciated.

Second, contrary to what you say in your README file,
/usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README, I cannot get rsh, rlogin and
talk to work. But I can get telnet and ftp to work. Is there some
configuration trick that I am missing?

Here is a demo of what works and what doesn't.

The Windows machine I am using is called "woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu"
and it runs Microsoft Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2. My
version of Cygwin is:

    gustav@woodlands $ uname -a
    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
    gustav@woodlands $

I have followed your instructions in the README, i.e., 

   1) I have run "iu-config";
   2) I have run "inetd --install-as-service" as the "administrator";
   3) I have linked cygwin1.dll to /usr/sbin, because this is where
      inetd.exe looks for it;
   4) I have run "net start inetd" as the "administrator";

At this stage I get telnet and ftp working. Beige, from which I make
the connection, is a Solaris-2.6 server:

    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:51:23 !8 $ telnet woodlands
    Trying 129.79.15.18...
    Connected to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu.
    Escape character is '^]'.

    CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) (WOODLANDS) (tty0)

    login: gustav
    Password:
    =================================================================
	       Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
      CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    =================================================================

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ pwd
    /home/gustav

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ ls
    Bambosz   HPSS     Immigration   Nanotechnology      SCI 2001   bin
    GPFS      Houston  Licenses.txt  Pernambuco          San Diego  src
    Globus    IBM      Listy         QuBIC               TeX
    HPC Asia  IU PPP   My Pictures   RealNetworks_files  Woodlands

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ exit
    logout
    Connection closed by foreign host.
    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:51:46 !9 $ 

And similarly for ftp:

    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:51:46 !9 $ ftp woodlands
    Connected to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu.
    220- =================================================================
    220-            Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
    220-   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    220- =================================================================
    220 WOODLANDS FTP server (GNU inetutils 1.3.2) ready.
    Name (woodlands:gustav): gustav
    331 Password required for gustav.
    Password:
    230- =================================================================
    230-            Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
    230-   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    230- =================================================================
    230 User gustav logged in.
    ftp> pwd
    257 "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/gustav/My Documents" \
       is current directory.
    ftp> quit
    221 Goodbye.
    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:52:49 !10 $ 

But for rsh and rlogin the connection does not work:

    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:56:19 !18 $ rlogin -l gustav woodlands
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: gustav
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: Connection closed.
    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:56:57 !19 $ 

However, interstingly, the following has some effect, which to me suggests
a bug:

    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:58:03 !20 $ rlogin -l gustav@woodlands woodlands
    Password:
    Login incorrect
    login: gustav
    Password:
    =================================================================
	       Welcome to woodlands.ovpit.indiana.edu
      CYGWIN_NT-5.0 WOODLANDS 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i386
    =================================================================

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ pwd
    /home/gustav

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ ls
    Bambosz   HPSS     Immigration   Nanotechnology      SCI 2001   bin
    GPFS      Houston  Licenses.txt  Pernambuco          San Diego  src
    Globus    IBM      Listy         QuBIC               TeX
    HPC Asia  IU PPP   My Pictures   RealNetworks_files  Woodlands

    gustav@WOODLANDS ~
    $ exit
    logout
    Connection closed.
    gustav@beige:../gustav 13:58:25 !21 $

Observe that the connection is obtained only on the second attempt, i.e.,
the first time I type password, I get rejected. This is not a typo. This
happens every time I try it. And ONLY when I use this incorrect call to
rlogin: "rlogin -l gustav@woodlands woodlands". 

Is there something special I should do with my Cygwin /etc/passwd entry?
At present it looks as follows:

    gustav@woodlands $ grep gustav /etc/passwd
    gustav:*:1000:513:Zdzislaw Meglicki,S-1-5-21-2058559853-879773387-1169164804-1000:/home/gustav:/bin/bash
    gustav@woodlands $

Best regards,
Gustav

 Zdzislaw (Gustav) Meglicki, gustav@indiana.edu, Indiana University, 
 Office of the Vice President for Information Technology,
 601 E. Kirkwood Ave., Room 116, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1223, USA,
 ph: 812-856-5597, fax: 812-855-3310, http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/gustav

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