On Thu, 6 May 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, David Corbin wrote:
>
> > I'm very confused. When ssh to cygwin sshd, how does it try to match
> > the password?
>
> It doesn't. It delegates to Windows.
Upon re-reading the above, I realized that you didn't clarify which
Windows version you were asking about. IIRC, on Win9x the passwords can
be "crypt"ed into /etc/passwd directly. On WinNT/2k/XP, the
authentication is delegated to the OS.
Igor
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