cygwin-1.7beta -- iu-config -- what is the right way?

Tue May 5 15:43:00 GMT 2009

My goal is to able to:
	rsh localhost
or
	rsh localhost ls
As you all know, this can be made to work just fine on 32-bit Windows 
variants.
Yes, I know all about ssh. Not an option for various reasons out of 
my control.
With the cygwin-1.7 beta, I read that progress has been made in making 
this possible on 64-bit variants. I have been beating my head against 
the wall long enough that I don't feel foolish asking for help. The 
platforms I'm interested in are Windows XP x64, Vista x64, and Windows 
Server 2008 x64.
Here are the steps that I've used:
0.1. Fresh Windows install in a VM with all updates.
0.2. VM Snapshot
0.3. Disable the firewall
1. Install cygwin-1.7 (there is no 1.5)
2. Open cygwin window (as administrator)
3. iu-config
answer the questions, allow the creation of the cyg_server privileged 
user.
4. Edit the inetd.conf file to uncomment the login and shell lines.
5. cygrunsrv -S inetd
6. Give it a try:
	georgn@gn-vista64-vm ~
	$ rsh localhost
	rlogind: Permission denied.
	georgn@gn-vista64-vm ~
	$ rsh localhost ls
	Host address mismatch for gn-vista64-vm.bitmover.com
So these steps fail on all three of my target platforms. In the same 
way, so clearly the steps are consistently wrong.
I did have something working earlier on an xp x64 machine briefly but 
after a reboot it reverted to the above behaviour :-(
I have read many emails, web pages about the difficulties mapping UNIX 
setuid to the Windows (in)security model which have led me to try 
random things but doing these things in ignorance doesn't seem to be 
leading anywhere.
So I have to humbly ask, which FM did I forget to read? Or is there 
some way to debug my way to an answer?
-g
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