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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:42:16 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: proftpd
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:38:29AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Gerrit,
> 
> >>> I cannot login.
> >>> [...]
> >>> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> >>> +  /* We have to do special Windows NT voodoo with Cygwin in order to be
> >>> +   * able to switch UID/GID. More info at
> >>> +   * http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID
> >>> +   */
> >>> +       if (is_winnt) {
> 
> >> Actually I'm missing something like an `else' here.  The authentication
> 
> > I configured with additional options and now I can login too.
> > But still having problems.  Lets see what Jason figured out.
> 
> I fooled myself, I entered my encrypted password into my passwd file at the
> right place and so the unix way to login is done with success, but without the
> password in my passwd file it still doesn't work.

As I said, there's probably a check (call to crypt() somewhere.  The
right way to do it is to leave it alone on 9x/Me (which therefore is
no problem to support here, btw.) and to call that NT stuff on NT systems.
That can't be too much of a problem...

Corinna

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