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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: how to set a passwd for a user Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:48:35 -0800 Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3E528003.7030508@Salira.com> References: <0bef01c2d750$e97c7b00$9c00140a@uk.circle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Vince Hoffman wrote: > It shouldnt make any difference at all. (the "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" > bit should give you a clue that on windows 2k/xp/NT windows handles > the password.) Maybe it should be changed to "this_field_is_unused_by_cygwin_running_under_nt/2000_or_XP__instead_cygwin_makes_calls_to_either_the_domain_controller_or_the_local_OS_to_get_the_encrypted_passwd" (Did I leave out anything? :-) ) -- 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/