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?
On NT/2k/XP? It uses the users Windows password. > 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. Hello? Every password field in mkpasswd output contains "unused_by_nt/2000/xp". I don't see how you can misunderstand that. > 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. It doesn't do that for me. More details, please. > Cygwin is interesting but seems very heavy to get to work > proberly. Sometimes people do run into problems with getting services working, but otherwise its pretty easy to use. Max. -- 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/
