Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 01:40:24 -0700 From: "Flynn, Connor J" Subject: Re: PASSWD.EXE and Re: Possible to login as different user? To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Message-id: <29E6E93D92576F4DB85FE89FF2C23F44A837E9@pnlmse03.pnl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Use /bin/crypt to create DES encrypted passwords and copy them into > your /etc/passwd for telnet or ftp. How exactly does one copy the encrypted passwords into /etc/passwd and get telnet/ftp/login to read them? I tried several approaches: 1. Piping the output of mkpasswd into /etc/passwd 2. Also tried appending the output of crypt to the same file. 3. Even tried using the -U domain/user, -S SID format suggested in login.README even though those instructions were for WinNT/2K and I have Win98. Neither approach worked as I expected. It seems that if the username I supply when prompted exists within the /etc/passwd file, login doesn't even prompt me for a password. It just responds "Fanfare!! You are successfully logged into this server!!!" Sure that saves typing, but it's worrisome in terms of security! ;-) If you could provide a sample or excerpt from a working passwd file, that might just do the trick. Thx! (BTW, I'm impressed. You sure do respond fast!) Connor J. Flynn MS K9-24 Connor DOT Flynn AT arm DOT gov Battelle NW, PNNL 509-375-2041 PO Box 999 fax-271-0030 Richland WA 99352 lab-372-4710 No brains, no headaches... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/