1.3.22 login problem

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jun 13 15:16:00 GMT 2003


Dima Chubarov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> login always fails with my cygwin installation on Win2000.
> 
> I have checked the mailing lists and found the following letter by Corinna
> Vinschen (in reply to Mark Calder):
> 
> Mark Calder> When I use the login command I get "login
> Mark Calder> incorrect".
> 
> Corinna Vinschen> You cannot change user context on
> Corinna Vinschen> NT/W2K if your account
> Corinna Vinschen> has not explicitely set several user
> Corinna Vinschen> rights. Even administrator
> Corinna Vinschen> doesn't have all these user rights. Corinna Vinschen>
> These rights are
> Corinna Vinschen>
> Corinna Vinschen>  "Act as part of the operating system"
> Corinna Vinschen>  "Replace process level token"
> Corinna Vinschen>  "Increase quotas"
> Corinna Vinschen>
> ....
> 
> Even when these are set for my group (there is still a possibility that I
> did not get the Russian translation right) login fails. And I need login to
> run inetd.
> 
> My typical BASH session looks like
> 
>  bash-2.05b$ export CYGWIN=ntsec
>  bash-2.05b$ login root
>  Password:
>  Login incorrect
>  login:
>  bash-2.05b$ mkpasswd -lu root
>  root:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:
>     ц╞ц⌠ц▌ц▐ц≈ц│ц■ц┘ц▄ц≤,U-LAB22-3\root,
>     S-1-5-21-789336058-920026266-1708537768-
>     1002:/home/root:/bin/bash
> 

Is there a reason not to just run inetd as a service as the documentation
suggests?

The above permissions need to be added to the account from which 'login'
will run, not the target account to be logged into.  You'll need to add
the specified permissions to the account you will issue 'login' from.
I'm guessing from the information you provided above that this account
is not 'root'.

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