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Re: ntsec
Whew! Glad I'm not going crazy. Thanks, as always, for your hard work in
making such a GREAT product!
I use Cygwin/OpenSSH everyday!
-ME
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: ntsec
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:34AM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote:
> > OK... Maybe _I_ misunderstood the original poster's point.
> >
> > But, yesterday, I was setting up SSHD on a server. In my /etc/passwd
file,
> > I wanted to use "admin" instead of "administrator" since "admin" is less
> > typing. But I didn't/couldn't change the Administrator Windows 2000
account
> > name.
> >
> > So, I was following instructions in login.README and the openssh readme
file
> > and used:
> > admin::500:544:System
> > Administrator,U-Administrator,S-1-5-21-...-500:/home/admin:/bin/bash
> >
> > Then, when I SSH in, I get "password incorrect" or whatever the actual
error
> > message is.
> > When, in the /etc/passwd file, I change "^admin" to "^administrator", I
can
> > log in.
> >
> > I was referring to the "if you don't like your NT login name" part of
the
> > readme text I quoted.
> >
> > Hope that makes more sense. Kick me if I'm still overlooking the
obvious.
> > <g>
>
> This makes much more sense. I've just investigated the problem and
> found that it never could work in 2.3.0p1 due to the fact that the
> pw_gecos field is dropped at one point in the authentication procedure
> in sshd.
>
> This will definitely added to the upcoming 2.5.0p2.
>
> Thanks for the hint,
> Corinna
>
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