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: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:27:36 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login Message-ID: <20040305102736.GD21805@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <020e01c40222$1a805c60$1d5a0c80@mencken> <023d01c40232$d96d3610$1d5a0c80@mencken> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 4 17:26, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As for the passwd question -- I don't know, it just says that. Looking at > the sources, the whole string is hard-coded in there, so... Maybe it's a > joke on Corinna's part to see if anybody noticed anything strange?.. ;-) Back when I wrote passwd, the Linux version of passwd I was using printed that, too :-) > I don't think these limits are actually enforced. No, the enforced limits are the ones set up in Windows itself, if any. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/