On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:09:00AM +0000, Tiffany Chan wrote: > Cygwin 1.3.3 is installed in a normal win 2000 > advanced server A (SP2). Server A connected to Domain, > but it is not DC. > > Local users are created in Server A. "passwd" and > "group" files are created by, > > $ mkgroup -l > /etc/group > $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > > When I telnet to server A (by Cygwin) with local users > account and change password, > > > $ passwd > Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 > characters). > Please use a combination of upper and lower case > letters and numbers. > Old password: <<<local user type old password here>>> > Bad password: Too short.
The old password is checked against the SAM of the logon domain by calling NetUserChangePassword(NULL, username, oldpasswd, oldpasswd); which should work if there are no password restricions and the oldpasswd is correct. If you have a password restriction on server A, this call already fails. That's not quite correct but I can't say anything else then the last time. The error message is generated as a result of this Win32 call. It's *not* a Cygwin error message, it's a Windows error message. However, I've changed passwd in the developers sources so that it only exits when the old password is explicitely wrong (NetUserChangePassword() returns ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD). This should help. If you need it soon, try it from one of the next developer snapshots. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
