Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:58:02 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <521225071309.20020726165802@familiehaase.de> To: Brian Flanagan CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: newbie question: Guest password In-Reply-To: <20020726144054.43368.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020726144054.43368.qmail@web12801.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brian schrieb: > I can find nowhere in the documentation where the guest password is > defined ( or even how to change it ). What is the password for the > guest account? > When I create a new user, where do I set their password? You create users as usual in Windows and assign them passwords there too. However, there is also a tool to change passwords from within Cygwin: passwd $ passwd --help Usage: passwd (-l|-u|-S) [USER] passwd [-i NUM] [-n MINDAYS] [-x MAXDAYS] [-L LEN] User operations: -l, --lock lock USER's account -u, --unlock unlock USER's account -S, --status display password status for USER (locked, expired, etc.) System operations: -i, --inactive set NUM of days before inactive accounts are disabled (inactive accounts are those with expired passwords) -n, --minage set system minimum password age to MINDAYS -x, --maxage set system maximum password age to MAXDAYS -L, --length set system minimum password length to LEN Other options: -h, --help output usage information and exit -v, --version output version information and exit Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/