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Re: authentication in cygwin
Christoffer Walther wrote:
> Hi and thanks for the reply. I have the same problem with
> sshd, 'permission denied', it would be great if I could just
> edit the /etc/passwd file manually and the sshd would
> look up the password there, can it be done this way?
No.
You do need to set CYGWIN=ntsec in the environment of your services. How did
you set up sshd? Did you use the ssh-host-config script?
Max.
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