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Re: cygwin virtual user


On May 13 20:35, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
> ok now i created virtual user with 'test' username. login and proftpd works and i can guess sshd and others work too.
> 
> So username, UID, GID, first part of gcos like name of user, home directory and shell can be changed believe me.
> 
> just 1 qus? more
> 
> How to give some different password to virtual user as it only accepts password of same SID, last part of gcos ????

That won't work.  It's still the same underlying Windows user with the
same Windows password.  That should be clear from using the same SID.


Corinna

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