On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:37:42PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > after updating to the latest version of Cygwin (1.3.15-1) including > all other modules, rshd wouldn't accept my .rhosts file anymore > because it's owned by the wrong owner. The error message is > "permission denied (bad .rhosts owner)." > > The reason for this is obvious: I turned off ntsec, thus the .rhosts > file is owned by whoever starts rshd (probably SYSTEM because I run it > as a service). I'm running Cygwin on W2K/NTFS; my CYGWIN environment > variable is "ntea nontsec".
Have you considered leaving ntsec on in the service environment but turning it off in yours, after you get in? Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/