/etc/passwd, username, password, and ssh
Ivan Dobrianov
ivan@dobrianov.net
Tue Jun 18 02:16:00 GMT 2002
I have this really dumb question, but I could not find any document or
mail that clarifies that issue:
o I install Cygwin. I am not "Administrator" in Windows terms, though I
have admin privileges.
o All runs great until one day I decide to run sshd. I configure and
then start /usr/sbin/sshd and all looks well.
o Now I try to login using ssh from a different [or the same] machine
and I get a prompt:
Administrator@w2kts's password:
Huh? Password? Cygwin has never asked me for ANY password ever before!
Which password does it want: the "real" Windows admin [which I don't
know] or mine? Neither works.
o I go back to the host machine and type passwd:
~> passwd.exe
passwd: unknown user ivan dobrianov
~ > whoami
Administrator
~ > id
uid=500(Administrator) gid=513(None) groups=513(None)
Then I do:
/etc > mkpasswd.exe -d | egrep -i ivan >> passwd
which adds some more abra-cadabra-style entries, but the above commands
still fail.
================================================
Now I am confused!
- What is the meaning and format of /ets/passwd in Cygwin? What are
these long entries like:
Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-BUTTER\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1614895752-601609370-1417001333-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
- How do I login as ANY user other then Administrator?
- How do I set a password for Administrator [or any other user].
- Are Cygwin users in one-to-one correspondence to Windows users and
who/where/how stores the passwords. Can they be different?
BTW: I am not using NTSEC or NTEA, though trying NTSEC did not seem to
help [and it messes up permissions]. Is this necessary? What if I don't
have NTFS?
Thanks for any help!
--
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/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list