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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:15:18 +0200
From: "H. Henning Schmidt" <hhschmidt AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: verify login info on Windows
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, H. Henning Schmidt wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I am developing a server application that accepts logins from a client
>>over a proprietary protocol.
>>I want to let clients login (username/password) before allowing anything
>>else.  I want to let them use username/password information as it is
>>stored in the regular system user database, so I do not need to maintain
>>another such database.  On Unix this would be /etc/passwd or
>>/etc/shadoww and the associated libraray calls.
>>
>>However, on my Cygwin box, the /etc/passwd (as created by mkpasswd) does
>>not contain the password. Instead the appropriate field reads
>>unused_by_nt. After googling along for a while I have understood that
>>this is done so that the real login/security info can be maintained by
>>the regular windows system.  Fine. But how do I get to it? I have not
>>found any example/explanation that answers this question:
>>
>>given two const char* variables user and password, how can I find out if
>>this combination is a valid login on this current Windows/Cygwin box?
>>
>>This might be a pute Windows issue (as oposed to Cygwin) ... however,
>>with a Linux-only knowledge of system calls, I have no clue how to
>>approach this anyways.
>>    
>>
>
>How about looking at the source of some program that actually does such
>authentication?  Searching for the string "cygwin" in auth-passwd.c in
>openssh sources is one approach.
>	Igor
>  
>
Thank you for this hint. So cygwin_logon_user() is the call I need.
Apparently this is one of the hidden cygwin_*() functions that are *not* 
documented in the API docs (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html).
Easy enough to use though.
;Henning

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