rshd authentication
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Thu Aug 8 08:10:00 GMT 2002
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> rlogin/rsh always ask for the password on interactive login.
>>
>> That seems "different" , at least to what I was used to with HP-UX.
>> Indeed there is no mention of this in the man page for rlogin except
>> to say:
>>
>> If the remote host does not supporting Kerberos the standard Berkeley
>> rhosts authorization mechanism is used.
>>
>> There is no Cygwin man page for rhosts however looking at
>> http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/cgi-bin/unixhelp/man-cgi?rhosts I find
>>
>> The rlogin program falls back to the standard password-based login
>> procedure if the remote authentication fails.
>>
>> Which would seem to suggest to me that if the remote authentication
>> works then no password should be prompted for.
>
> You're right. It turned out that the cause is the login(1) application
> which on NT systems didn't allow login w/o password. Unfortunately I
> never adjusted login(1) after we introduced login w/o password
> capability with Cygwin 1.3.6. I did that now and uploaded a new
> version of the login package. Should be on the mirrors in some hours.
Cool. Thanks Corinna.
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