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RE: rlogind vs. smb
- From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at P7S1Produktion dot de>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:13:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: rlogind vs. smb
cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> We have some windows machines running Cygwin to which we'd like to
> connect via rsh.
>
> It all works well if the passwd entry's home field points to a local
> directory, and the .rhosts file in that directory contains the proper
> values.
>
> The accounts are hosted on a linux based file server. The unixes get
> the home directory via NFS, and the fileserver also shares via samba.
>
> If you set the home to //fileserver/share in the cygwin box's
> /etc/passwd, then .rhosts suddenly stops being valid, and you're
> asked for a password. What's funny is that if you put the right
> password in, then a shell is started, and the pwd is the share, and
> the files therein are available, including .rhosts.
>
> So basically:
>
> 1. does anybody know why rlogind doesn't like SMB shares?
> 2. does anybody know where rlogind logs it's complaints to? 3. while
> we're added, how do you get rlogind to be promiscuous? Or actually,
> what's the cygwin equivelent of /etc/pam.d/rlogind ?
...
What are the permissions of .rhosts on the shares? rshd/rlogind refuses to use them if anybody but the owner has write access!
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