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Subject:	RE: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
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Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2002 20:50:26 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Pavel Tsekov" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:52 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
> 
> 
> Hello, there! :)
> 
> I want to raise this issue again... In short
> on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log
> users without password set (or empty passwords - I dont know 
> which is correct to be said). Is this a known issue ? The 
> failed Win32 API is LogonUser. I red the MSDN docu on this 
> API but it was of no help at all... I've tried several 
> different ways to call LogonUser but to no avail:(
> 
> This issue affects the instructions in the inetutils README 
> file which say that to run anonymous ftp you either have to 
> use Guest or create an account without password named (or 
> mapped) ftp. Still Guest is allowed without pass by 
> LogonUser, but not any other accounts...

There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except
for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens.

Rob

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