Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:01:08 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ? Message-ID: <20030113150107.GA389283@WORLDNET> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:45:14AM +0100, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > Hello, > > I want to know if it is possible using the Cygwin tools > to validate a user/password against the domain > a computer is in. Yes, that's exactly what happens when you telnet or ssh, providing a password. Cygwin provides a function: cygwin_logon_user (user_pwd_entry, cleartext_password); See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID As indicated before, the user needs to be in passwd. Pierre -- 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/