Hello Corinna, Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:46:26 PM, you wrote:
CV> 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... CV> Unfortunately XP Home has some ... interesting ... restrictions. CV> I've messed up my XP Home installation so I can't look into this. CV> However, even if there's no useful GUI user manager you can still CV> use the CLI version `net user'. Assuming the name of that user is CV> "foo", you can look into the user info with `net user foo' and the CV> output is sth. like that: CV> $ net user foo CV> User name foo CV> Full Name foo CV> Comment CV> User's comment CV> Country code 000 (System Default) CV> Account active Yes CV> Account expires Never CV> Password last set 1/30/2002 12:34 PM CV> Password expires Never CV> Password changeable 1/30/2002 12:34 PM CV> Password required Yes CV> User may change password Yes Well, this is very interesting :) I have this user without a password still if I use the net user command it says that password is required, though I can log in without a password from the keyboard, but not via cygwin_logon_user ()... This is really weird! I'll investigate this further in the weekend. -- 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/
