Re: Setting and using a password in W98

2002-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:57:02PM -, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: >Q3. Could the contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat be "officially" tweaked >to c:\Cygwin\bin\login in order to gain the password-protection that is >not conferred by the current contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat, o

Re: Setting and using a password in W98

2002-03-11 Thread Max Bowsher
> Q3. Could the contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat be "officially" tweaked to > c:\Cygwin\bin\login in order to gain the password-protection that is not > conferred by the current contents of c:\Cygwin\cygwin.bat, or would this > change simply induce other, different, equally bad consequences?! > Fe

Re: Setting and using a password in W98

2002-03-11 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 06:57 Subject: Setting and using a password in W98 > All this is in W98: > > I pas

Setting and using a password in W98

2002-03-11 Thread fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
All this is in W98: I pasted the output from crypt {mypassword}into the appropriate place in /etc/passwd as shown {myusername}:{output}:500:544::/home/{myusername}:/bin/bash and now I get prompted for a password when starting Cygwin. Nice. (This is when starting Cygwin with "c:\Cygwin\bin\