Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003d01c228f4$d25d0d00$0a0aa8c0@stirling.gcplc.com> From: "Keith Starsmeare" To: "Andrew DeFaria" Cc: References: <002601c228c8$6b112090$0a0aa8c0@stirling.gcplc.com> <20020711124904.58048.qmail@web21002.mail.yahoo.com> <3D2DA3F5.2090108@DeFaria.com> Subject: Re: Telnet's driving me mad! Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:05:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew DeFaria" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:27 PM Subject: Re: Telnet's driving me mad! > When you "log in" I assume you mean you log in normally through the > Windows desktop. When you telnet in you also "log in" in that you > authenticate with an authority and receive security credentials. If you > are getting permission denied when you telnet in but not when you log > into the desktop via Windows then your security credentials in both > situations are not the same. I would strongly suspect that your > /etc/passwd file does not reflect the correct information. How did you > create this file and what did you do when you "played with /etc/passwd"? My passwd file was fine - but my group file had been goofed somehow! A quick mkgroup -d fixed everything. Thanks very much for your thoughtful email - it sent me hunting in the right direction! :-) Keith -- 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/