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Subject: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd
From: "Calvin Smith" <exnihilo4 AT myrealbox DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:05:07 -0700
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Thanks for the information. I tried to run mkpasswd, but got the following error message:

mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

Do I need to be logged in as a domain administrator to execute this successfully? I tried the above as a local administrator, since I don't have domain administrator access, and that was the error I got.

When I logged on as a domain (non-administrator) user and executed the command, I got an "Access Denied" error message.

Given that I will need to set a cron job to update the passwd file every few minutes or so, for when users change their passwords, how can I ensure that this happens? I could easily do this in unix by just setting a root or system cron job, which would always execute regardless of who was logged in, but I'm not sure how to do this in windows and cygwin -- i.e., how to make sure it executes regardless of who is logged in, and how to make sure cygwin is running in the first place.

thanks for any help....



-----Original Message-----
From: "Matt Berney" <mberney AT polyserve DOT com>
To: <exnihilo4 AT myrealbox DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:51:59 -0800
Subject: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Calvin,

You can update the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file with the domain users and groups with the following command:

cd /etc
/usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -g -d > passwd
/usr/bin/mkgroup -l -d > group

net stop sshd && net start sshd

Use 'man mkpasswd' & 'man mkgroup' for help.

--Matt






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