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Re: Problem with rsh


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:      
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>
> >Check your /etc/passwd file and make sure there is no entry in the
> >password field (the second field).  You want something like this:
> >
> >someuser::11150:...
> >
> >and not something like this:
> >
> >someuser:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11150:...
> >
> Wham! Good answer! It works!

Yes, but you have no security.
The cygwin mechanism that logs you in when the password is empty
is the same as with .rhosts, and different from the one
when providing a password.
Thus it looks like your .rhosts isn't setup properly.
Among other things it should only be writable by you.

Pierre


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