I have run across unanswered questions in this newsgroup that I wished had been answered, so FYI...
Apparently, if the environment variable USER is defined when inetd is started, telnetd will not prompt for the user id. I added "-e USER=cyguser" to the cygrunsrv options on WinXP and it caused telnet to skip the user id prompt and immediately prompt for the password. "BB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I use inetd Win98 and telnet to it, I get a prompt for a password. > When I telnet to inetd on XP, it prompts for a user id and then a password. > Is there any reason for this inconsistency? Is there anything I can do to > make them consistent? > > My guess is that is has something to do with the user id inetd is running > as. On Win98, I start inetd from as bash shell with a user id. On WinXP, > inetd is started as SYSTEM I think. > -- 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/
