Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/22/06:42:31
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:38:29AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Gerrit,
>
> >>> I cannot login.
> >>> [...]
> >>> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> >>> + /* We have to do special Windows NT voodoo with Cygwin in order to be
> >>> + * able to switch UID/GID. More info at
> >>> + * http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID
> >>> + */
> >>> + if (is_winnt) {
>
> >> Actually I'm missing something like an `else' here. The authentication
>
> > I configured with additional options and now I can login too.
> > But still having problems. Lets see what Jason figured out.
>
> I fooled myself, I entered my encrypted password into my passwd file at the
> right place and so the unix way to login is done with success, but without the
> password in my passwd file it still doesn't work.
As I said, there's probably a check (call to crypt() somewhere. The
right way to do it is to leave it alone on 9x/Me (which therefore is
no problem to support here, btw.) and to call that NT stuff on NT systems.
That can't be too much of a problem...
Corinna
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