From: corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de (Corinna Vinschen) Subject: Re: passwd with cygwin 28 Jan 1999 13:33:40 -0800 Message-ID: <36B08797.52FD7A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@cityweb.de> References: <199901262227.XAA20801@snt-gw.snt.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Miroslav Luptak , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Miroslav Luptak wrote: > > Hello, Corinna. > > I am trying your passwd program, but it does not touch my > /etc/passwd file. Could you please send me some instructions > for correct installation and usage of your passwd ? `passwd' doesn't work on /etc/passwd but on the WinNT user database. It's useless, to write passwords into /etc/passwd for login purposes on a NT computer. Regards, Corinna - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".