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Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:04:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	"John van V." <john_van_v AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To:	john AT thinman DOT com
Subject:	SSH 1 Server and the Passwd file
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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Hello all, 

The ssh1 client is working pretty well for me, but I got hung up on the NT
server.

Basically it works but I could never get the passwd file right.

I believe the reason is that I am on a NetWare lan and not on a MS domain.

I ran mkpasswd -l but there were no crypt entries, and I dont even know how it
should look !!

SHELL } mkpasswd -d
Cannot get PDC, code = 2453
SHELL }

SHELL } mkpasswd -l
Administrator::500:513:::/bin/sh
Guest::501:513:::/bin/sh
JVanvlaa::1010:513:John Van Vlaanderen::/bin/sh
ntadmin::1000:513:DTC NT Administrator::/bin/sh
SHELL }

I foolishly tried to make crypts w/ perl ( perl -e 'print -e ( "secretpasswd",
"salt" )

But is that such a bad idea ??

Ok, confession time, I am ~not~ a c programmer, though I wish I were.
Would it be easy just to revert to the un/linix format ??, especially when the
cygwin docs pretty well dont want you to allow cygwin to be multi-user if
security in involved ??  

The point would be that only a distinct user group would be allowed in, and
they would be seperate from the NT users.  They would be managed by the ssh
admin, a completely sane approach if you view ssh as an application rather than
a part of the kernel.  

The web is managed thus (at least in apache) via htaccess (argh!!) or the other
passwd file method, or cookies.

Since my shop is buying into both Cygwin and ActiveState on NT, the obvious
stikes me every day, would it be possible to combine the two ??

TIA,

               "Y2K bugs, check under the rug"

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John van Vlaanderen

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