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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:30:47 +0000
From: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd
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Are you running the inetd daemon to start ftpd and telnetd? If you
aren't make sure you look at /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. I
run ftpd and telnetd all the time via inetd.

Ensure your /etc/passwd and /etc/group are up to date.

HTH

Don Sharp

"Malghan, Ravi" wrote:
> 
> Please let me know if anybody responds to you. I think it's something very
> simple and I have been searching all over the mailing lists and have only
> seen questions but no answers for this problem.
> 
> Thanks
> Ravi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nandini [mailto:nandinit AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:09 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd
> 
> Hi: I am trying to set these deamons (sshd, ftpd
> telnetd). The deamon starts fine. But when I ssh or
> ftp or telnet I keep getting incorrect password. I
> have created the /etc/passwd and /etc/group using
> mkpasswd -lc, mkgroup -lc and I see the username I am
> using in /etc/passwd. Is there anything else I have to
> do for the authentication to work?
> For ftpd, I donot have the file /etc/nologin, no lines
> in /etc/ftpusers and the shell for all users is bash
> which does exist in /etc/shells file.
> 
> Thanks
> Nand
> 
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