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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:47:05 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and ssh - password auth. problem
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On Nov  4 17:02, Re Persina wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have cygwin running on a windows 2000 server, which is also a PDC.
> I setup sshd in cygwin and I've been using it for some time to login
> as administrator, both using the password and using public-key auth,
> and it has been working great. I now need to have a regular user (a
> member of the Domain User group) login using ssh. I'll call this user
> "user1". I created the user in active directory, and synced cygwin's
> passwd file with "mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd". However, this does not
> allow me to login over ssh as my new user, using the password I set.

I think you have to allow logon of this user explicitely.  Normal
users don't have logon rights on the domain controller by default,
AFAIK.


Corinna

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