On Feb 18 15:32, Dominik Straßer wrote: > Am 18.02.2014 15:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Feb 18 15:20, Dominik Straßer wrote: > >>Am 18.02.2014 13:43, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3 > >>> > >>tried it, but didn't work: > >>$ passwd -R > >>[etc] > >>Enter your current password: > >>Re-enter your current password: > >>Storing password failed: Function not implemented > Hi Corinna, > >Did you *read* the aforementioned URL? It explains that a non-admin > >needs cygserver to run passwd -R. As an admin you can enter the > >password for other users, if you know it. See additionally > >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd > Of yourse I did :-), and I clicked on "Run as adminstrator" for the > Cygwin shell (otherwise the error message was different: Storing > password failed: bad file descriptor)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is my fault. I broke this functionality in Cygwin 1.7.28-2, because I changed a conditional expression the wrong way. <head on desk in despair> Sorry about that. I applied a fix to CVS. For the time being, you need to use either Cygwin 1.7.27, or wait for the snapshot I'm going to upload in the next half hour or so: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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