From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: FTPD problem Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 03:39:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010905123900.F30380@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <3B95FA84.164CFFE5@netcom.es> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00185.html On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:12:20AM +0000, GRI wrote: > > > I have installed inetutils-1.3.2-14 to my PC (running windows 2000 > Profesional) and followed the readme file to set up and start the > inetd as administrator. > > After adding a user with the needed rights, i need to regenerate > /etc/passwd: > > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > > When I start a ftp session to my localhost the ftpd respond me that > login is incorrect. > > Is there anything special I should do with my /etc/paswd ? Try restarting the inetd service. > at present it looks as follow: > [...] > prueba:s.lWJG8DGDNwY:1006:513:prueba,S-1-5-21-1060284298-113007714-2146651539-1006:/home/prueba:/bin/bash The password given in that entry is never used on NT/W2K. On NT/W2K only the Windows passwords are used for logon. Try using the Windows password given when you've created that user. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/