Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:03:17 -0500 To: john@thinman.com Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: SSH 1 Server and the Passwd file Message-ID: <20000110160317.A10917@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: john@thinman.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000110160437.4425.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000110160437.4425.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>; from john_van_v@yahoo.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 08:04:37AM -0800 On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 08:04:37AM -0800, John van V. wrote: >I foolishly tried to make crypts w/ perl ( perl -e 'print -e ( "secretpasswd", >"salt" ) > >But is that such a bad idea ?? > >Ok, confession time, I am ~not~ a c programmer, though I wish I were. >Would it be easy just to revert to the un/linix format ??, especially when the >cygwin docs pretty well dont want you to allow cygwin to be multi-user if >security in involved ?? It's certainly possible to do. If you're asking if this will magically appear in a future release, the answer is probably no, unless you can find somebody willing to invest time in doing this. -Chris Faylor -Cygwin Programming Manager -Red Hat -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com