Re: Local Setup Cache & Rlogin problems

[Sandeep Tamhankar <sandman at Interwoven dot com>]

I concur.  Last week I upgraded everything and then the rlogin daemon 
stopped working.  (Side note: It still doesn't work; I posted info on 
this list but have only gotten one response stating they have the 
problem too, so it's not just my computer being weird).  Unfortunately, 
last week I didn't know that the old versions of packages are still 
saved in my system.  If I'd known this then, I would've reported exactly 
which modules got upgraded to cause my problems.

Hmm, it'd probably be a good idea to do this now: upon doing some 
research, I found that my login package was upgraded from 1.4-1 to 
1.4-2.  My inetutils was upgraded from 1.3.2-11 to 1.3.2-14.  My Cygwin 
itself was upgraded from an old 1.1.8-2 to a whopping 1.3.2-1.

The symptom I'm seeing is that the rlogin actually succeeds and then 
login yells because I don't seem to have permission to execute 
/bin/bash.  But I do since it's world-readable.  And I can telnet into 
the machine and all is well with the world.  And I can open up bash 
windows on the console.  The other really weird symptom is that when I 
rlogin as a different valid username/password, it rejects the login 
attempt completely.  So I can try rlogging in as myself and getting 
permission denied from login.exe, or I get a total authentication 
failure when trying to rlog in as someone else.

This is W2k and someone on this list already mentioned that they've seen 
the same problem on W2k, although it used to work for them on NT.  If I 
can get my hands on an NT box (and some time to play with this), I'll 
try setting it up there and testing it out.

Any advice would be appreciated.

-Sandeep
P.S. I have a sneaking suspicion ntsec is responsible for this.  What do 
I lose if I turn ntsec off?  I think I tried it already, and it didn't 
help, but I tried so many combinations of things that I really don't 
remember at this point.

Norman Vine wrote:

>Michael A. Chase
>
>>Currently, setup.exe downloads package files from whatever mirror site a
>>user selects and then installs the packages.  As new versions are produced,
>>they get downloaded and installed to replace the old version, but the
>>archive files for the old version are not removed.  Eventually this may
>>
>fill
>
>>significant amounts of disk space with obsolete files.
>>
>>I see two likely ways for handling this problem:
>>
>>Does anyone see any other possibilities?
>>
>
>3) Some of us may want to keep the old versions for
>     various reasons
>
>so IMHO any builtin archive cleaner should be non-automatic
>
>Cheers
>
>Norman Vine
>
>
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