From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2757 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2002 06:56:19 -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 2649 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 06:56:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shawcable.net) (24.83.101.198) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 06:56:15 -0000 Received: by shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6CDCD19F0F; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:56:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:56:00 -0000 From: "Ryan T. Sammartino" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to create a new user Message-ID: <20020213065614.GA365@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020212133506.N27351@cs.mcgill.ca> <20020212194551.K14241@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020212135748.O27351@cs.mcgill.ca> <20020212211706.GA31833@localhost> <20020212172654.Q27351@cs.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020212172654.Q27351@cs.mcgill.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://members.shaw.ca/ryants X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00641.txt.bz2 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 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. -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache. -- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot" -- 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/