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Re: [1.7] passwd: useless if used with a logged on domain user
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:54:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: [1.7] passwd: useless if used with a logged on domain user
Corinna,
Do your recent changes to passwd
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00799.html
address this issue:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00370.html
6. (Vista) error in setting cyg_server passwd expiry
(Recap: 'passwd -e cyg_server' doesn't work when *current* user ('herb')
is a domain user, attempting to set the expiry of a local user
('cyg_server').
> passwd: unknown user herb
> *** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'cyg_server' failed!
> *** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it to your needs.
>
> The command that generates the unknown user error is "passwd -e
> cyg_server" from the csih script. Note that it complains about the login
> user, not the cyg_server user.
I'd test it myself, but I don't have a domain (server) to play with...
--
Chuck
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