On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote: > Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server on > my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I attempt to > log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd, > exactly how do cygwin/ftpd do authentication? I added the test user in the windows > user area as well, and did a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd. I also tried to changed > the password using passwd but /etc/passwd is not affected at all.
Have you read the file /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-*.README ? It contains important information on setting up an ftp server. > PS, the install program is terrible, whatever I do it seems to install everything >from > scratch whenever I just want to add a new package. Cygwin is interesting but seems > very heavy to get to work proberly. Then you're doing something wrong. Please, describe what steps do you take in the setup wizard, so that it installs everything from scratch. -- 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/
