On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:50:26PM +1000, Robert Collins 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... > > There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except > for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens.
XP Home has no tool to change policies. It must have the policies stored somewhere, though. I guess it should be possible to write your own tool to change policies using the normal Lsa policy calls. 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/
