Subject: Re: proftpd
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:18:11 +0200

Hallo Corinna,

Am Dienstag, 22. April 2003 um 00:23 schriebst du:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> I could compile the current cvs source, the server runs, but ...
>> I cannot login.
>> [...]
>> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
>> +  /* We have to do special Windows NT voodoo with Cygwin in order to be
>> +   * able to switch UID/GID. More info at
>> +   * http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID
>> +   */
>> +       if (is_winnt) {
>> +               HANDLE hToken = cygwin_logon_user(pw, pass);
>> +
>> +               if (hToken == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
>> +          goto auth_failure;
>> +               cygwin_set_impersonation_token(hToken);
>> +       }
>> +#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
>> +

> Actually I'm missing something like an `else' here.  The authentication
> on NT/2K/XP is done *instead* of making any authentication like calling
> crypt() to verify the password or calling some PAM functions.  You must
> make sure that on NT/2K/XP that stuff doesn't get called.  On 9x/Me
> OTOH you still must use crypt() to verify the password.  If you want to
> see a really simple example, have a look into the login(1) source

I don't need it for Win98.  Windows 98 is a dead cow...

I configured with additional options and now I can login too.
But still having problems.  Lets see what Jason figured out.

Gerrit
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