If the user you're trying to access the domain with is not a valid domain user, then you will have problems like this. You don't need to be the domain administrator to run 'mkpasswd' with '-d' but you will need to run it as a user that's a member of the domain.
Larry At 02:43 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote: >Thanks for the information. When I tried to run mkpasswd, I got the following error >message: > >mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. > >I looked in the man page and didn't see anything about using a username and password. > >Is this error message familiar to anyone? Do I have to login as a domain >administrator (which I am not) to run this command successfully? I was trying to run >it as a local administrator. > >thanks > > >-----Original Message----- >From: "Matt Berney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:51:59 -0800 >Subject: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd > >Calvin, > >You can update the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file with the domain users and >groups with the following command: > >cd /etc >/usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -g -d > passwd >/usr/bin/mkgroup -l -d > group > >net stop sshd && net start sshd > >Use 'man mkpasswd' & 'man mkgroup' for help. > >--Matt > > > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
