Re: cygwin login and passwords

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:36:28PM -0700, Joseph I. Davida wrote:
> Is changing uid's and gid's in /etc/passwd something
> to be avoided,  since I assume these are windows assigned?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.1

> Need su and login to work seemlessly with windows'
> passwords in order to allow remote logins and ssh
> clients. Currently, login does not recognize valid
> windows passwords.

It does but it doesn't work on the command line due to the NT security
model.

> Also, If I create a windows user called
> root, is there a way to make windows give it uid 0
> or even change windows' password file (whereever that is)
> to assign root uid 0?

Windows don't have uid's but SIDs.  I strongly recommend reading
some documentation about NT security.

The URL http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html just gives some
basic information needed to understand Cygwin's ntsec.

Corinna

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