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Re: rsh: UID does not match user
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: rsh: UID does not match user
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:34:21 +0100
- References: <e2.c90d3dc.2746cd90@aol.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Pdomings@aol.com wrote:
>
> Is it normal behavior for the UID in the remote shell to be set to 500
> regardless of the user? When I issue the command:
> rsh pdomings id
A non interactive rsh isn't able to change the user context. You
get the id of the user running inetd.
Use sshd with password authentication or a sshd running under your
account to get the intended behaviour.
Corinna
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