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Okay, hmmmm. So what is the secret to geting sshd working? It is running, but
when I try to ssh in, it doesn't accept my domain password. Does it work
with domain users or is there something special I need to do for that to
happen?

D


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> dsacks wrote:
>> fyi, this is all about trying to get sshd to accept incoming connections.
>> I
>> want to use winscp into my xp box to move files.
>> 
>> I am very confused about what password sshd would use - does it use
>> windows
>> authentication or does it expect to find passwords in /etc/passwd? Can I
>> choose? 
>> 
> 
> Password authentication is done through Windows.  Passwords on all
> NT-based
> platforms come from Windows.
> 
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