On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:34AM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote: > OK... Maybe _I_ misunderstood the original poster's point. > > But, yesterday, I was setting up SSHD on a server. In my /etc/passwd file, > I wanted to use "admin" instead of "administrator" since "admin" is less > typing. But I didn't/couldn't change the Administrator Windows 2000 account > name. > > So, I was following instructions in login.README and the openssh readme file > and used: > admin::500:544:System > Administrator,U-Administrator,S-1-5-21-...-500:/home/admin:/bin/bash > > Then, when I SSH in, I get "password incorrect" or whatever the actual error > message is. > When, in the /etc/passwd file, I change "^admin" to "^administrator", I can > log in. > > I was referring to the "if you don't like your NT login name" part of the > readme text I quoted. > > Hope that makes more sense. Kick me if I'm still overlooking the obvious. > <g> This makes much more sense. I've just investigated the problem and found that it never could work in 2.3.0p1 due to the fact that the pw_gecos field is dropped at one point in the authentication procedure in sshd. This will definitely added to the upcoming 2.5.0p2. Thanks for the hint, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
