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Re: exim - failed to read delivery status
At 06:52 AM 6/9/2003 +0400, CoolCold wrote:
Hello CoolCold
>>>PAH> Can you telnet and/or ssh into the box?
>>>sshd works
>
>PAH> What about telnet (inetd)?
How do you know sshd works?
Can you telnet into the box as a normal user?
>PAH> Edit the /etc/passwd file. The second field is the password.
>SYSTEM::18:544:,S-1-5-18:/:/bin/bash is it ok?
Yes.
>PAH> Then telnet localhost.
>PAH> You should not have to provide a password for SYSTEM
>it says :
>Password:
>Login incorrect
>login: system
>Switching to user system failed!
This starts well. login recognizes that SYSTEM exists and
has no password.
The error comes from these lines in login.c
if (seteuid(pwd->pw_uid)) {
printf("Switching to user %s failed!\n", username);
So telnetd has the same problem as exim, it can't setuid, even
though in this case the setuid should be a noop.
There is something wrong with your installation.
What version of Windows do you have?
Does "ps -a" show that inetd has uid 18?
Does uid 18 appear several times in /etc/passwd ?
>ssh doesn't accept connection to,but AllowRootLogin=yes,and
>AllowBlankPassword=yes...
Same problem, probably.
>In windows' event log I can see:
>Event Type: Success Audit
>Event Source: Security
>Event Category: Privilege Use
>Event ID: 576
>Date: 6/9/2003
>Time: 6:46:18 AM
>User: WORKSTATION\coolcold
>Computer: WORKSTATION
>Description:
>Special privileges assigned to new logon:
> User Name: coolcold
> Domain: WORKSTATION
> Logon ID: (0x0,0x6526FC)
> Privileges: SeChangeNotifyPrivilege
> SeBackupPrivilege
> SeRestorePrivilege
> SeDebugPrivilege
That looks normal and not related to the problem.
Wait. What happened at 6:46 am? Did you login at the console
or did you do something else?
Is there anything in the application log?
Is there anything interesting in /var/log/xxx.log ?
Pierre (who sees it's 11:30 PM)
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