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Re[2]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:03:53 +0200
- Subject: Re[2]: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
- Organization: Syntrex, Inc.
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA76008AC3F@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-to: Pavel Tsekov <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hello Robert,
Friday, April 05, 2002, 12:50:26 PM, you wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@syntrex.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:52 PM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
>>
>>
>> Hello, there! :)
>>
>> I want to raise this issue again... In short
>> on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log
>> users without password set (or empty passwords - I dont know
>> which is correct to be said). Is this a known issue ? The
>> failed Win32 API is LogonUser. I red the MSDN docu on this
>> API but it was of no help at all... I've tried several
>> different ways to call LogonUser but to no avail:(
>>
>> This issue affects the instructions in the inetutils README
>> file which say that to run anonymous ftp you either have to
>> use Guest or create an account without password named (or
>> mapped) ftp. Still Guest is allowed without pass by
>> LogonUser, but not any other accounts...
RC> There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except
RC> for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens.
Well, I think this doesn't help much with XP home - it doesn't allow
you to edit policies :) Or at least I can't find the tool which does
it :)
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