Greetings, jesus san miguel! Please don't top-post in this list. Thank you.
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@xxxx> wrote: And please don't quote raw email addresses. >> 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. > Thanks for your answer, but I am using password-less authentication > too (with public/private keys), so /etc/password is necessary, isn't > it? For all that I know, all you need is to save your password for the account you want to login with. > Besides, user alias "miabuela" is working as expected. Why shouldn't > "administrator" alias work as well? That's the worst idea I've heard since morning. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, March 6, 2017 12:20:25 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
