Hi Andrey, Thanks for your answer, but I am using password-less authentication too (with public/private keys), so /etc/password is necessary, isn't it? Besides, user alias "miabuela" is working as expected. Why shouldn't "administrator" alias work as well?
Best, Jesus On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, jesus san miguel! > >> I wanted to avoid case sensitive problems by duplicating users in >> /etc/passwd, > > Just delete that file already. > >> but I find mixed results: >> I can login as "Administrator", "MYPC+Administrator" and "miabuela", >> but not as "administrator" despite all of them being the same Window >> user. > >> This is an excerpt of /etc/passwd: > >> $ cat /etc/passwd | grep 500 >> SSFE009W2012+Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash >> miabuela:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash >> Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash >> administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash > >> #Administrator@SSFE009W2012 /etc >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW SSFE009W2012 2.7.0(0.306/5/3) 2017-02-12 13:13 i686 Cygwin > >> The error I get in windows log is "Failed password for invalid user >> administrator" > > Cygwin plugs directly into Windows SAM for years already. > You're just making it hard for yourself. > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Friday, March 3, 2017 16:47:15 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
