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Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:29:11PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:44:22AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >And rsh is a dangerous service anyway.  If you don't want it,
> > >just remove the matching line in /etc/inetd.conf and use ssh.
> > 
> > Ah but I *want* rsh. I just want it to work correctly. :-)
> 
> Could this be the cause?
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01052.html

It is.  So, if somebody changes the pw_passwd field (which should
contain the "unused on nt/2k/xp" entry, rsh behaves exactly is
it does on a U*X system if a user has no password entry.  Good to
know.

Thanks,
Corinna

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