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Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd


The password field  in /etc/passwd is not used on NT/W2K/W2K3....

Larry


At 03:05 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote:
>Thanks for the information. I tried to run mkpasswd, but got the following error message:
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>mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
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>Do I need to be logged in as a domain administrator to execute this successfully? I tried the above as a local administrator, since I don't have domain administrator access, and that was the error I got.
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>When I logged on as a domain (non-administrator) user and executed the command, I got an "Access Denied" error message.
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>Given that I will need to set a cron job to update the passwd file every few minutes or so, for when users change their passwords, how can I ensure that this happens? I could easily do this in unix by just setting a root or system cron job, which would always execute regardless of who was logged in, but I'm not sure how to do this in windows and cygwin -- i.e., how to make sure it executes regardless of who is logged in, and how to make sure cygwin is running in the first place.
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>thanks for any help....
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Matt Berney" <mberney@polyserve.com>
>To: <exnihilo4@myrealbox.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:51:59 -0800
>Subject: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd
>
>Calvin,
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>You can update the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file with the domain users and groups with the following command:
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>cd /etc
>/usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -g -d > passwd
>/usr/bin/mkgroup -l -d > group
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>net stop sshd && net start sshd
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>Use 'man mkpasswd' & 'man mkgroup' for help.
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>--Matt
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