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Re: Anybody really runs sshd in win2K?


On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:17:54PM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote:
> Corrina correct me if I am wrong, but I thought sshd uses the native NT
> passwords and not /etc/passwd.  Please forgive me since I am coming back from
> a rather long hiatus, has this changed since I last looked?  Do /etc/passwd
> entries take priority over the windows SAM DB?

Your first idea was completely ok. On NT/W2K the NT password is used.
You can change or add passwords to /etc/passwd in great profusion
without success.

Corinna

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