NFS/SSHD interaction

Tue Feb 18 15:33:00 GMT 2014

Am 18.02.2014 15:56, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 18 15:32, Dominik StraÃŸer wrote:
>> Am 18.02.2014 15:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Feb 18 15:20, Dominik StraÃŸer wrote:
>>>> Am 18.02.2014 13:43, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3
>>>>>
>>>> tried it, but didn't work:
>>>> $ passwd -R
>>>> [etc]
>>>> Enter your current password:
>>>> Re-enter your current password:
>>>> Storing password failed: Function not implemented
>> Hi Corinna,
>>> Did you *read* the aforementioned URL?  It explains that a non-admin
>>> needs cygserver to run passwd -R.  As an admin you can enter the
>>> password for other users, if you know it.  See additionally
>>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd
>> Of yourse I did :-), and I clicked on "Run as adminstrator" for the
>> Cygwin shell (otherwise the error message was different: Storing
>> password failed: bad file descriptor)
> Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>
> This is my fault.  I broke this functionality in Cygwin 1.7.28-2,
> because I changed a conditional expression the wrong way.
>
> <head on desk in despair>
Hi Corinna,
no problem at all.
> Sorry about that.  I applied a fix to CVS.  For the time being, you
> need to use either Cygwin 1.7.27, or wait for the snapshot I'm going
> to upload in the next half hour or so: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
As I have a workaround now, I'll wait until this fix is available in a 
release.

Best regards

Dominik
>
>
> Corinna
>

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