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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:00:17 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: passwords
Message-ID: <20010314090017.S2116@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <3AAF2078.63A39BCB@certum.pl>; from jacek@certum.pl on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:40:40AM +0100

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:40:40AM +0100, Jacek Trzcinski wrote:
> Hi !
> I have just started utilizing Cygwin 1.1.8-2 under NT 4.0 workstation.
> Everything seems to work OK but
> what about network configuration. Any clients (ftp,telnet,ssh) to remote
> machines work OK. I have problems with deamons. Under session with ssh
> client,
> both with remote machine and my machine my sshd does not accept any
> password.
> Any time after typing password I get message "Permission denied, please
> try again" what should I do. 

Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.5.1p2.README.

> How to configure ftp and telnet deamons so that connection could be
> possible.

Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README.

> Still I got messages "unable to connect to remote host. Connection
> refused."
> And at the and other matter. How should work login. After executing
> cygwin
> I become the same user as user logged to windows. Loging now even as a
> current windows user always fails (incorect password). How should it
> work ?

Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README
and  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> What password changes program passwd ? It does not change,as in Linux
> for example, user password.  As I found in sources it changes
> user network password but where is it utilized ?

It changes the password in the NT user datebase. These are used in
Cygwin as well. Therefore you don't need extra passwords in /etc/passwd.

And read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#PASSWD

Corinna

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