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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:02:34 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Password Problem - Cygwin
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At 04:54 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there 
>Great job youre doing.I encountered this problem running
>cygwin under Windows XP.
>When changing my password with passwd.exe the program
>exited but to my horror the password which i had entered in
>did not work at my cygwin login or the windows login.
>What could be the problem?


See 'man passwd', look for the "Limitations" note.



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