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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin login and passwords
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:30:19 +0100
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> Is changing uid's and gid's in /etc/passwd something
> to be avoided,  since I assume these are windows assigned?
> 
> Need su and login to work seemlessly with windows'
> passwords in order to allow remote logins and ssh
> clients. Currently, login does not recognize valid
> windows passwords.
I have a version of su that runs on Cygwin. However I need someone to
tell me how to coerce bash into running interactively (currently needs
to be forced via -i flag). I'm starting bash using CreateProcess.

Chris



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