Cygwin 'login' command does not work - why?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 09:53 PM 8/13/2002, Joe Wilson wrote:
>Both login and sshd used to work quite well on this machine -
>for several weeks and after repeated reboots.  Really, honest.  
>Since I upgraded a few packages in Cygwin via the Cygwin installer
>they no longer work.  Reverting the packages did not help.
>Even erasing/reinstalling Cygwin did not help.


OK, I believe you. ;-)


>Yes, I know Cygwin login is largely useless, but surely Login.exe 
>must function in some regard or it would not have been included 
>in the Cygwin distribution.


Login's purpose has been to be invoked indirectly via services/daemon (like
sshd, telnetd, etc).  It won't work from user's other than SYSTEM without
significant effort. 


>Of course it is a configuration issue.  
>Probably, as you suggest, something very simple.  But I am out of ideas 
>that's why I am asking here.  I have reviewed all previous discussions, 
>all Cygwin documentation as well as searched via Google to no avail.
>I guess I will step through the login and crypto code with gdb.  


Right.  That's the most definitive way. ;-)  Simple or not (and I'm not
saying it's simple either).


>Sorry for all the trouble. 


Not at all.  It's a fair question.  I just wanted to point the way to the
"obvious" available sources of information in case you had overlooked them.
Perhaps someone else on the list will have a specific suggestion for your
problem.

Good luck.


>--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
> > I'll suggest that you review the email list archives about this and all
> > the available documentation on these programs and inetd if you have not
> > already.  This general issue has come up many times before and the solution
> > is generally a configuration one.  Previous discussions and available 
> > documentation should help track down this problem.  Don't worry about 
> > not being able to invoke "login" from the command line.  The Cygwin 
> > version of this utility is not meant to be invoked from the command line.
> > The issues you note when you do so are red herrings.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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