Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <005501c26b99$4d8deb70$9949893e@bowsher.foo> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Christoffer Walther" , References: <3D9D5B26 DOT 184484B3 AT cvt DOT dk> Subject: Re: authentication in cygwin Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:29:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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? On NT/2k/XP? It uses the users Windows password. > 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. Hello? Every password field in mkpasswd output contains "unused_by_nt/2000/xp". I don't see how you can misunderstand that. > 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. It doesn't do that for me. More details, please. > Cygwin is interesting but seems very heavy to get to work > proberly. Sometimes people do run into problems with getting services working, but otherwise its pretty easy to use. Max. -- 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/