On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:37:11AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:58:52AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote: > >>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>> I don't know exactly > >>>> but it's possible that W2K doesn't have these SeDenyWhatever user > >>>> rights. > >>> > >>> editrights -a SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight -u root > >>> > >>> was the one that failed. Would it be best (assuming these > >>> last 3 are optional) to 2> /dev/null them? Is there any other info > >>> that would help? > >> > >> Er... only this one? Hmm, that makes sense, sort of. Look like > >> this right only exist since XP. > >> > >> I'm reluctant to devnull them. There might be a real error covered > >> when doing this. I'll better add another variable to check if > >> running under XP or newer. > > OK :) > > > ping! ping! ping! > > > > New create-root script attached! > > > > This script should do it right now. Additionally I changed the way > > how the password is read to using the `read -s' option to hide what's > > actually typed in. > > But you display it in the next echo...
Ouch! I'll fix that. > > Can you give this script another test? > > Other than that it works fine :) > > Shame theres no way of setting the password to never expire :( There is! The passwd tool in the current snapshots already have the option -e to switch expiry off. If you have another look into the script, you'll see that I check the version number of passwd, so I know if it already has that functionality or not ;-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
