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Re: Password Problem - Cygwin
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "No-one! Here!" <node at mailbox dot co dot za>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:02:34 -0400
- Subject: Re: Password Problem - Cygwin
- References: <web-364435267@mail01.infosat.net>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 04:54 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there
>Great job youre doing.I encountered this problem running
>cygwin under Windows XP.
>When changing my password with passwd.exe the program
>exited but to my horror the password which i had entered in
>did not work at my cygwin login or the windows login.
>What could be the problem?
See 'man passwd', look for the "Limitations" note.
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