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 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20021206094630.05383628@goblet.cisco.com> X-Sender: brosler@goblet.cisco.com Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:01:38 -0500 To: "Max Bowsher" From: "Bruce P. Osler" Subject: Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ? Cc: "Vince Hoffman" , "Bruce P. Osler" , In-Reply-To: <011001c29d35$4525d510$78d96f83@pomello> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021206092618.017d0130@goblet.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. Sounds like I made the wrong assumption. So ... if this is the case, it sounds like it's workable. Especially so given that the employee roles haven't changed in nearly two years :-/ - Bruce At 02:39 PM 12/6/2002 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Bruce P. Osler wrote: > > > I guess I was looking for something a bit more dynamic. > >IIRC - If you do what was suggested, you should only need to rerun mkpasswd >when users are added or removed, not when they change their password. > >Not wonderful, but distinctly better that what you imagine. > >If you look inside a mkpasswd-generated passwd file, you will see that there >is no password info stored there. > >Max. > > >-- >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/ -- 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/