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 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:00:17 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: passwords Message-ID: <20010314090017.S2116@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AAF2078.63A39BCB@certum.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AAF2078.63A39BCB@certum.pl>; from jacek@certum.pl on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:40:40AM +0100 On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:40:40AM +0100, Jacek Trzcinski wrote: > Hi ! > I have just started utilizing Cygwin 1.1.8-2 under NT 4.0 workstation. > Everything seems to work OK but > what about network configuration. Any clients (ftp,telnet,ssh) to remote > machines work OK. I have problems with deamons. Under session with ssh > client, > both with remote machine and my machine my sshd does not accept any > password. > Any time after typing password I get message "Permission denied, please > try again" what should I do. Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.5.1p2.README. > How to configure ftp and telnet deamons so that connection could be > possible. Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. > Still I got messages "unable to connect to remote host. Connection > refused." > And at the and other matter. How should work login. After executing > cygwin > I become the same user as user logged to windows. Loging now even as a > current windows user always fails (incorect password). How should it > work ? Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > What password changes program passwd ? It does not change,as in Linux > for example, user password. As I found in sources it changes > user network password but where is it utilized ? It changes the password in the NT user datebase. These are used in Cygwin as well. Therefore you don't need extra passwords in /etc/passwd. And read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#PASSWD Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple