inetutils-1.3.2-2 on Cygwin 1.1.1

Mon May 22 13:00:00 GMT 2000

Chris Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:40:21PM -0500, Andrea Malagoli wrote:
> >By the way, if I may suggest, this part should be emphasized in the
> >documentation, since it is not emphasized upfront. For example, I had
> >to look at the mailing list to find out the details about the local
> >security rules to enable login. Still, this is a most promising
> >development, and very useful for someone like me who has to live with
> >two OSs.
>> A patch to the documentation with the wording that you suggest would
> be most welcome.

I have attached a new version of inetutils-1.3.2.README.
If it's ok, I will upload it to sourceware.
Corinna
This package is the actual port of inetutils-1.3.2 to Cygwin 1.1.1.
The base of that release is the port of Sergey Okhapkin.
Some additional patches are done to allow smooth working with
the current cygwin release and especially Windows NT service manager
and NT security.
The important changes in brief
==============================
- inetd:
 Under W9X inetd can be started from a shell prompt or from the
 autostart folder.
 Under NT/W2K inetd must be started from service manager. It
 must not be started via SRVANY but it has two new options
 to install or remove it as service:
 inetd --install-as-service
 inetd --remove-as-service
 When you already have an older version of inetd installed,
 please remove the service before installing the new one.
 
 After you have installed inetd it will be started automatically
 on reboot. Manually starting and stopping is possible via
 net start inetd
 net stop inetd
 Current caveat: inetd is visible twice in the process list.
 This is currently needed to work correctly with the service
 manager. This should be solved in a future release.
 If you don't start inetd as service under LocalSystem but under
 another account, you have to care that that account has several
 user rights set in the user manager resp. local/domain security
 policy mmc snap in:
 "Act as part of the operating system"
 "Replace process level token"
 "Increase quotas"
 "Logon as a service"
 Note that administrators do not have all that user rights set
 by default!
 For all application started via service manager the following
 restrictions are valid:
 - The environment variable CYGWIN must be set in the system
 environment to be active from start on.
 - The system environment variable PATH must contain the path
 to the directory which contains the cygwin1.dll.
 - No user mount point is valid anymore! You have to install all
 your mount points in the system mount table. This doesn't
 change after you have logged in to a normal user account eg.
 via telnet/rlogin. It's possible that we can use the user
 mounts as soon as somebody contributes a patch to login and
 ftp that allows loading a user hive into the registry after
 authentication.
- ftpd:
 Under NT/W2K ftpd is now able to change user context with the
 help of NT security. This is useful mostly when using all features
 of the ntsec option of cygwin. The 'S-' and 'U-' fields in
 pw_gecos are taken into account as it's described in
 the 'login.README' file.
- ftp:
 ftp reports to be a UNIX system, so binary mode is ON by default
 with most servers.
What is working?
================
 ftp
 ftpd
 inetd
 rcp
 rlogin After EOF the user has to enter RETURN twice to get back
 to the prompt.
 rlogind
 rsh
 rshd Works only once per 10 minutes. This seems to be
 related to some winsock error because rshsvc from
 the NT resource kit has the same problem.
 syslog
 syslogd Superfluous for NT because syslog output is generated anyway.
 talk
 talkd
 telnet
 telnetd
 uucpd
What is not yet working?
========================
 rexecd Invalid handle error
 tftp Permission errors
 tftpd Permission errors
Please send requests, error reports etc. to cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com.
Have fun,
Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company