Whew! Glad I'm not going crazy. Thanks, as always, for your hard work in making such a GREAT product! I use Cygwin/OpenSSH everyday! -ME ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: ntsec > 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 > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
