Hello Robert, Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:50:26 PM, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:52 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user >> >> >> 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... RC> There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except RC> for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens. Well, I think this doesn't help much with XP home - it doesn't allow you to edit policies :) Or at least I can't find the tool which does it :) -- 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/
