Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A686E24.A6C63023@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:41:08 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Passwords References: <3A6852AE.B688BEE@lightbridge.com> <20010119162656.W4318@cobold.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Louis Bohm wrote: > > Maybe I am not getting it but where is the password stored in > > /etc/passwd. Or is it not stored there? > > > > I am trying to figure out what password login.exe wants when I > > telnet in. If I use passwd to set my passwd I noticed that the > > passwd file does not get updated nor does it set the passwd so I > > can use login.exe. > > On NT/W2K the passwords are stored in the NT user database. > You can use login.exe only from an account which has the > appropriate user rights as described in > > /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README > Perhaps a `ln -s inetutils-1.3.2.README Passwords.README' would help? Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple