Subject: Re: authentication in cygwin
From: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
To: "Christoffer Walther" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:34:46 +0100

Christoffer Walther wrote:
> Hi and thanks for the reply. I have the same problem with
> sshd, 'permission denied', it would be great if I could just
> edit the /etc/passwd file manually and the sshd would
> look up the password there, can it be done this way?

No.

You do need to set CYGWIN=ntsec in the environment of your services. How did
you set up sshd? Did you use the ssh-host-config script?

Max.

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