On Aug 31 14:12, Vlado wrote: > On 31.8.2016 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I found a workaround: The Windows call for changing the password used > > by the passwd tool is > > > > ret = NetUserChangePassowrd (server, username, old_pwd, new_pwd); > > > > The server is usually the logon server, prepended by double backslash, > > as in the variable $LOGONSERVER, and this is how passwd uses the function. > > However, while this still works fine on W7 and 2008R2, it fails on the > > newer systems with error 1265, ERROR_DOWNGRADE_DETECTED. > > > > The workaround puzzles me slightly, but it seems to do the trick: > > If I use the domain name (as in $USERDOMAIN) instead of the server > > name when calling this function, it works as expected, also on W7 > > or 2008R2. > > Thank You for very useful information. > > I tried Your workaround and it works perfectly for me: > test@server ~ > $ LOGONSERVER=server passwd > Old password: > New password: > Re-enter new password: > Password changed. > > test@server ~ > $ > > (Old value in $LOGONSERVER was \\server) > > My server is standalone Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise, so Microsoft's > error message is not quite correct. > > (On Yours 2008R2 problem didn't occur - interesting.)
Yeah, I have no idea why :( Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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