From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30387 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2002 02:41:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30346 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 02:41:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21202.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.130.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 02:41:25 -0000 Message-ID: <20020104024124.2622.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.84.131.70] by web21202.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 02:41:24 GMT Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:41:00 -0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tiffany=20Chan?= Subject: Re: Re: cannot change password using "passwd" command To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00137.txt.bz2 For account policy in both local server and domain server, the minimum character for password is 0. Moreover, I can use user account to change password in w2k GUI (ie. CTRL+ALT+DEL --> change password), with the same set of password tried in Cygwin. I don't want user use the console, so I hope they can change their password using telnet. Would you mind to help me ? THanks ------------------------------------------------ On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:57:05AM +0000, Tiffany Chan wrote: >> >> I cannot change password of local account using >> "passwd" command in Cygwin. >> >> $passwd >> Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 >> characters). >> Please use a combination of upper and lower case >> letters and numbers. >> Old password: < i type old password here> >> Bad password: Too short. >> >> I am sure that the password is typed correctly. I am >> using w2k server. >> >> What's wrong ? >As the error message says, your password is too >short. That >message is generated when the OS returns the error >code >NERR_PasswordTooShort which means... the password is >too short. >Your machine has a policy set that the password must >have a >minimum length, probably. >Corinna __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- 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/