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Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:39:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: FTPD problem
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In-Reply-To: <3B95FA84.164CFFE5@netcom.es>; from gri@netcom.es on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:12:20AM +0000

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:12:20AM +0000, GRI wrote:
> 
> 
> I have installed inetutils-1.3.2-14 to my PC (running windows 2000
> Profesional) and followed the readme file to set up and start the
> inetd as administrator.
> 
> After adding a user with the needed rights,  i need to regenerate
> /etc/passwd:
> 
>         $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> 
> When I start a ftp session to my localhost the ftpd respond me that
> login is incorrect.
> 
> Is there anything special I should do with my /etc/paswd ?

Try restarting the inetd service.

> at present it looks as follow:
> [...]
> prueba:s.lWJG8DGDNwY:1006:513:prueba,S-1-5-21-1060284298-113007714-2146651539-1006:/home/prueba:/bin/bash

The password given in that entry is never used on NT/W2K. On NT/W2K
only the Windows passwords are used for logon. Try using the Windows
password given when you've created that user.

Corinna

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