From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21054 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2002 12:05:03 -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 21009 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 12:04:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21210.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.175.253) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 12:04:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20020127120457.38151.qmail@web21210.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.198.24.5] by web21210.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:04:57 GMT Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 04:15:00 -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/msg01651.txt.bz2 Hi all, 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. Is there any setting needed for local user use "passwd" ? 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/