On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:52:26AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hello, there! :) > > I want to raise this issue again... In short > on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log > users without password set (or empty passwords - I dont know which is > correct to be said). Is this a known issue ? The failed Win32 API is > LogonUser. I red the MSDN docu on this API but it was of no help at > all... I've tried several different ways to call LogonUser but to no > avail:( > > This issue affects the instructions in the inetutils README file which > say that to run anonymous ftp you either have to use Guest or create > an account without password named (or mapped) ftp. Still Guest is > allowed without pass by LogonUser, but not any other accounts...
Unfortunately XP Home has some ... interesting ... restrictions. I've messed up my XP Home installation so I can't look into this. However, even if there's no useful GUI user manager you can still use the CLI version `net user'. Assuming the name of that user is "foo", you can look into the user info with `net user foo' and the output is sth. like that: $ net user foo User name foo Full Name foo Comment User's comment Country code 000 (System Default) Account active Yes Account expires Never Password last set 1/30/2002 12:34 PM Password expires Never Password changeable 1/30/2002 12:34 PM Password required Yes User may change password Yes Workstations allowed All Logon script User profile Home directory D:/home/corinna Last logon 4/5/2002 8:48 AM Logon hours allowed All Local Group Memberships *Users Global Group memberships *None The command completed successfully. You see "Password required" set to "yes"? Now try $ net user foo /passwordreq:no and try again. I don't know if that helps, though. Just a guess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
