From: "Ryan T. Sammartino" <ryants@shaw.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how to create a new user
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020213065614.GA365@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020212172654.Q27351@cs.mcgill.ca>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
> I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag,
> because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option.
I have the latest greatest Cygwin possible (don't have
version numbers in front of me at the moment), but mkpasswd -u <user>
means "make a password entry just for the given user"
>
> We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but
> I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh
> attempt). You don't have this problem ? Can you think of anything
> that might be responsible for this ?
/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-***.README solved all of my problems when I
actually read and followed the direction given therein.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-12 10:35 Alex BATKO
2002-02-12 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-02-12 10:58 ` Alex BATKO
2002-02-12 13:17 ` Ryan T. Sammartino
2002-02-12 14:27 ` Alex BATKO
2002-02-12 20:11 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-02-12 22:56 ` Ryan T. Sammartino [this message]
2002-02-13 6:41 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-02-13 13:38 ` Alex BATKO
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