Fw: Re: rpcd.exe

[Jim McNamara]

Hi-

The AI really did go nuts like you said.
I just read the man page for that and
mkpassword -l isnt cutting it with setting up on win side first.

I dont know why it told me that. Crazy-town.

I will think of a command for a second..

I know what i will do i will create the user
in windows and then wipe out the context of the
/etc/passwd and then issue mkpasswd with the 
appropriate switch(es).

thanks






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From: Jim McNamara via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Date: On Sunday, July 28th, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: rpcd.exe
To: cygwin@cygwin.com <cygwin@cygwin.com>


> Hi -
>
> I dont want to give away your email by replying because I am
> afraid it won't obfuscate when I reply back.
>
> Thanks for the reply from you and the group!
>
> I'm trying to issue this command
>
> mkpasswd -l rsyncuser >> /etc/passwd
>
>
> i thought it would append a line to the end of my /etc/passwd file
> that would indicate that i now have a rsync user.
>
> it malfunctions and doesnt append anything.
>
> I might want to mention when i go to install from the installer at the
> end of the installer wizard i get this m\sg.
>
> Package: _/Unknown package
> xinit.sh exit code 3
>
> I dont know why mkpasswd is not working in this syntax.
> I am about to add it (passwd file entry) in manually. I changed subjects for a while and
> I am working on computing again at GMT -4 20:00 Jul 28
>
> What I have accomplished so far is containerized with docker
> grsync and rsync and forwarded it over x windows to cygwin.
> It worked well, but they said i have to have a user both in
> docker and cygwin with the same user and group id.
> This is a step so that I can use rsync part of the app.
> Then i can escalate with grsync gui with advanced commands of
> rsync and sudo into a directory where i need elevated privileges.
> I am also working on ssh with all this in the meantime but leaving
> some of that off for now.
>
> I am setting up this special container up as part of my "workbench" to work
> on apache royale by spinning up docker containers with custom
> PhP extensioins.
>
> So, i just dont know at the moment about this mkpasswd and
> what i did wrong.
>
> I will keep after it.
>
> P.S. i might mention that the AI gives a killer tutorial on
> windows permissions. It teaches to do chmod on mingw
> which doesnt have that command like cygwin via icalcs,
> but so doens't Brian and he is not any AI ;-)
>
> thanks for any help,
> jim
>
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> On Sunday, July 28th, 2024 at 7:11 PM, _ _ robainloynet@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Welcome to the community!
> >
> > To further help you with your problem, could you explain what are you trying to do ?
> >
> > For context, rpcd is a program who is responsible for Remote Procedure Call on linux based system.
> >
> > I'm not sure what did you ask Chat GPT but you should know that A.I. is not a source of true.
> >
> > Have a good day !
> >
> > Le dim. 28 juil. 2024, 22:16, Jim McNamara via Cygwin cygwin@cygwin.com a écrit :
> >
> > > Hi the old chatgpt 3.5 thinks rpcd.exe is in inetutils package. Is it still available. It says I need it to run mkpasswd.
> > >
> > > I ran the python script python3 ./rpc_bapahbah.py
> > >
> > > it listens on 8000
> > >
> > > but it cant install rpcd.exe when i get to that step with cygrunserv cmd.
> > >
> > > I think it is because it is missing rpcd.exe as in
> > >
> > > find / -name "rpcd.exe" equals zed.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > jim
> > >
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