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Re: Problems with rexecd
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Problems with rexecd
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:39:24 +0200
- References: <3AE52100.4E2CDD24@srd.fr>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:45:20AM +0200, Raphael Duenas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the followingerror message with rexecd :
>
> 0 [main] in.rexecd 3336 spawn_guts: GetTokenInformation: Win32 error 6
> /bin/bash: Bad file number
>
> The inetd.conf entry is the following :
>
> exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.rexecd.exe
> in.rexecd.exe
>
> What can I do?
Porting rexecd would be a good start. The rexecd was never really
ported since it's not used that often and it's very insecure.
Another choice would be to use ssh.
Corinna
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