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From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSHD authentication
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010411100603.F956@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c0c1e1$c1351de0$026fa8c0@speakeasy.net>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:14:50AM -0700, *** wrote:
> As I'm running SSHD on a non-domain controller I'd like to use the local
> 
> accounts for user authentication. I thought this was controlled via the
> /etc/passwd
> 
> file. However when I launch cygwin and then login and attempt to login with
> the
> 
> username and password I've set login fails.

Did you check /etc/passwd? Does the entry has a home dir? The correct one?

> I have also poured over the documentation and do not understand where I
> should
> 
> set the netsec variable. Please tell me what file this variable needs to
> 
> configured for.

It's "ntsec", not "netsec". As for setting the CYGWIN settings:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

Corinna

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-11  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-10 11:11 ***
2001-04-10 15:15 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-04-11  1:06 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2001-04-11  5:09 ` Michael Erdely
2001-04-12  7:48   ` Jason B. Alonso
2001-04-12  8:17 Simha, Shuba
2002-04-10 13:20 sshd authentication Chetan Tiwari
2002-04-11  3:24 ` Corinna Vinschen

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