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Re: passwd.exe trouble
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: passwd.exe trouble
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:31:52 +0100
- References: <20001123090601.23972.qmail@web4804.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm using Win2K
>
> I want to change my password.
> My user name is petreolles.
> In /etc/passwd yet :
>
> petreolles@FR8040FHGZC449 ~
> $ cat /etc/passwd
> root::0:0::/bin/bash
> petreolles::500:500::/bin/bash
> petreolles@FR8040FHGZC449 ~
> $ passwd
> passwd: unknown user petreolles
That can't work. You have simply changed the name of Administrator
in /etc/passwd to your own name. Call `mkpasswd' for getting a
correct /etc/passwd. If you want to use another name for an account,
use the CYGWIN setting `ntsec' and read the documentation about it.
Corinna
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