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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
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.
Security is not as much a concern behind our firewall.
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.My .rhosts is:
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