Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/13/22:13:15
At 09:53 PM 8/13/2002, Joe Wilson wrote:
>Both login and sshd used to work quite well on this machine -
>for several weeks and after repeated reboots. Really, honest.
>Since I upgraded a few packages in Cygwin via the Cygwin installer
>they no longer work. Reverting the packages did not help.
>Even erasing/reinstalling Cygwin did not help.
OK, I believe you. ;-)
>Yes, I know Cygwin login is largely useless, but surely Login.exe
>must function in some regard or it would not have been included
>in the Cygwin distribution.
Login's purpose has been to be invoked indirectly via services/daemon (like
sshd, telnetd, etc). It won't work from user's other than SYSTEM without
significant effort.
>Of course it is a configuration issue.
>Probably, as you suggest, something very simple. But I am out of ideas
>that's why I am asking here. I have reviewed all previous discussions,
>all Cygwin documentation as well as searched via Google to no avail.
>I guess I will step through the login and crypto code with gdb.
Right. That's the most definitive way. ;-) Simple or not (and I'm not
saying it's simple either).
>Sorry for all the trouble.
Not at all. It's a fair question. I just wanted to point the way to the
"obvious" available sources of information in case you had overlooked them.
Perhaps someone else on the list will have a specific suggestion for your
problem.
Good luck.
>--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:
> > I'll suggest that you review the email list archives about this and all
> > the available documentation on these programs and inetd if you have not
> > already. This general issue has come up many times before and the solution
> > is generally a configuration one. Previous discussions and available
> > documentation should help track down this problem. Don't worry about
> > not being able to invoke "login" from the command line. The Cygwin
> > version of this utility is not meant to be invoked from the command line.
> > The issues you note when you do so are red herrings.
> >
> >
> >
> > Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
> > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
> > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> >
>
>
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