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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Can I change sfuuser's password ? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:11:56 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <20040227072036.86019.qmail@web60004.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-164.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * lau bella (2004-02-27 08:20 +0100) > In Cygwin 1.3.10 (win2k SP3 Advanced Server) , sfuuser > password is same as username. Aah, Cygwin 1.3.10. This is antique! > 1. For security reason, can I change the sfuuser > password ? Yes. > Any impact ? Maybe - as for any user account, services might be started under that account. > 2. What's the usage and privilege of sfuuser ? Don't know. SFU = Microsoft Services for Unix - ask Microsoft. > 3. If changing sfuuser password is not recommended, > any method to mininize the security impact ? UPDATE Cygwin and disable the account and update the SP of Windows 2000. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/