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Ujjaval Suthar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed cygwin first time on my windows server.  I need
> to setup sshd on my server, so that I can use it for subversion
> authentication.
> 
> My server name is say for example: XYZ.
> We have another main server where all my users are having their logins
> which is say for example: ABC
> 
> So, simply to long on to XYZ server they use ABC as domain and their
> username and password for that domain to logon to XYZ server. I need
> to use this same mechanism for the Subversion server on my XYZ server.
> For this, I want to use sshd to have secure authentication. For that I
> installed cygwin to have sshd running on my server.
> 
> somehow, I successfully added domain users by
> mkpasswd -d domain -u username >> /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -d domain >> /etc/group
> 
> in cygwin. But I'm not sure how can I check this on sshd?
> I tried using following command but didn't work:
> 
> $ssh ABC\UserX AT localhost
> 
> above command, asks me for password, but it does not authenticate my 
> password.
> Do I have to copy all my domain users' passwords in cygwin???


Don't use the domain name.  You shouldn't need it.


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