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 From: David Corbin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh password Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 20:49:15 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200405060806.57106.dcorbin@machturtle.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405062049.15419.dcorbin@machturtle.com> On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:30, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 6 May 2004, David Corbin wrote: > > > I'm very confused. When ssh to cygwin sshd, how does it try to match > > > the password? > > > > It doesn't. It delegates to Windows. > > Upon re-reading the above, I realized that you didn't clarify which > Windows version you were asking about. IIRC, on Win9x the passwords can > be "crypt"ed into /etc/passwd directly. On WinNT/2k/XP, the > authentication is delegated to the OS. > Igor Well, I'm dealing with a WIN2K Pro box that is part of a Domain. However, my password will not work. David -- 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/