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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:40:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Christoffer Walther <cw AT cvt DOT dk>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: authentication in cygwin
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote:

> Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server on
> my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I attempt to
> log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd,
> exactly how do cygwin/ftpd do authentication? I added the test user in the windows
> user area as well, and did a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd. I also tried to changed
> the password using passwd but /etc/passwd is not affected at all.

Have you read the file /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-*.README ? It contains 
important information on setting up an ftp server.

> PS, the install program is terrible, whatever I do it seems to install everything from
> scratch whenever I just want to add a new package. Cygwin is interesting but seems
> very heavy to get to work proberly.

Then you're doing something wrong. Please, describe what steps do you take 
in the setup wizard, so that it installs everything from scratch.


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