problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login

2004-03-04 Thread Daniel Danger Bentley
I attempted to create a new account on my machine. I added the user in XP. Then I did mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd. I started and stopped sshd using net. Also, I may have inadvertantly used passwd on both the old and new account to change the passwd. I have since mkpasswd -l'ed and passwd'ed each a

Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login

2004-03-04 Thread Daniel Danger Bentley
While I'm on it: why does passwd say 5 letters minimum, 8 letters maximum for a password? Thanks, Dan - Original Message ----- To: "Daniel Danger Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: problems wi

Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login

2004-03-05 Thread Daniel Danger Bentley
age- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Daniel Danger Bentley > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 8:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login ... > account to the password I want. But when I ssh