From: todd AT edge DOT cis DOT mcmaster DOT ca (Todd Pfaff) Subject: Re: About cygnus passwords and users 24 Apr 1998 22:45:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6sTfUZd4pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Reply-To: Todd Pfaff Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Hirmke Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On 24 Apr 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote: > >e are now testing Cygnus-Win32 networking abality, and we'd like to > >have more informations about the users. We didn't succeeded in creating > >users. We'd like to because we have inetd running with a view to enable > >telnet sessions. > > > >Thanks a lot if someone can give us some explanations to create > >users.... > > Have a look at mkpasswd and mkgroup, which are inlcuded in the CDK as > command line utils. > For help just run them without parameters. and then after you've done that, how is the resulting output used? i ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group. they are created with an empty password field. i tried to use some of the programs which i thought may reference these files, such as login, telnetd and sshd, and login authentication failed for all of these. does the /etc/passwd file have to be populated with passwords? if so, should they be standard unix des encrypted passwords? (ie. can i simply copy a password from a unix host?) does this depend on whether the programs (eg. login) were compiled with a certain libcrypt? are all the answers to these questions documented somewhere? if so, sorry for wasting bandwidth and please just point me at the proper place to look. -- Todd Pfaff \ Email: pfaff AT mcmaster DOT ca Computing and Information Services \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22920 ABB 132 \ FAX: (905) 528-3773 McMaster University \ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1 \ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".