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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alex Scott <fastidious007 AT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: user problem
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Alex,

Assuming your username is "lex", use "ssh lex AT localhost".  And, as Corinna
said, you'll need an sshd running before you can do this.
	Igor
P.S. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Alex Scott wrote:

> When I try to SSH I get:
>
> ssh: lex: no address associated with name
>
> Though the user is in my /etc/passwd and should be mapping through??
>
> ---
> arc
>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:11:05 +0200, Corinna Vinschen said:
> > On Apr  6 10:55, Alex Scott wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I have used mkpasswd -d to make a /etc/passwd file.
> > >
> > > But when I try to chown a file with my domain user the ownerships are not
> > > changing???
> >
> > You don't have the NT user rights necessary to perform chown.
> >
> > > Also when I try to su to that user my password is not being accepted, but
> > > it should be the same as the one I use for windows???
> >
> > su can't work.  Use ssh/sshd.
> >
> > Corinna

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