It should be noted that this does not work if running on W98, it must be on XP or NT (someone please correct me if I'm wrong here).
David Habermann -----Original Message----- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Paasword validation in Windows Domain ? On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:45:14AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I want to know if it is possible using the Cygwin tools > to validate a user/password against the domain > a computer is in. Yes, that's exactly what happens when you telnet or ssh, providing a password. Cygwin provides a function: cygwin_logon_user (user_pwd_entry, cleartext_password); See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID As indicated before, the user needs to be in passwd. Pierre -- 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/ -- 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/
