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Re: rshd authentication


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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