making a user (FAQ but can't find answer)

loren jan wilson loren@uchicago.edu
Thu Jun 24 15:06:00 GMT 2004


Dear cygwin community,

I've tried everything I can think of to try to add a user to 
cygwin, but haven't been able to use ssh, ftp, su, or login to
login as anybody except the user that Cygwin is running as.

I'm very familiar with mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd. I'm also familiar
with mkgroup.
The users are local users and they can login to windows just
fine...but they can't connect to any cygwin service.

Are there any windows services which need to be running in order
to make logins work properly? The method that cygwin uses to get
passwords from windows is a total mystery to me, and I haven't 
been able to find more information about it by using google
(site:cygwin.com).

Thanks,
loren

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loren jan wilson, CCNA
network engineering, uchicago.edu
1155 rm. 321 ; 773/702-8189

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