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, 1 Aug 2001 09:15:10 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin Maillist Subject: Re: PASSWD.EXE Message-ID: <20010801091510.A9574@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Maillist References: <001d01c11a14$57b91520$0f52a9cb@ebizmalay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001d01c11a14$57b91520$0f52a9cb@ebizmalay>; from nazar@ebizmalay.com on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:58:36AM +0800 On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:58:36AM +0800, ??z??78 wrote: > Hi there. > > I was wondering why can't I use passwd.exe? Upon using this, I've got > permission denied and win32 error "Error Starting Program: The PASSWD.EXE > file is linked to missing export NETAPI32.DLL:NetApiBufferFree". > > Thanks for some explanation cause I'm just curious. passwd runs on NT/W2K only. It changes the NT user database which doesn't exist on 9x/ME obviously. Use /bin/crypt to create DES encrypted passwords and copy them into your /etc/passwd for telnet or ftp. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/