On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Alex P! > >> How do I check that "passwd -R" worked correctly? >> I get error messages in Event Viewer when I run it as user (vs "As >> Administrator"). > > You must use it with elevated privileges. Else it wouldn't work at all.
>From https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/passwd.html "If normal, non-admin users should be allowed to enter their passwords using passwd -R, it's required to run cygserver as a service under the LocalSystem account before running passwd -R. This only affects storing passwords. Using passwords in privileged processes does not require cygserver to run." So without the cygserver running, 'passwd -R' is expected to fail unless it is running in a privileged shell; if you want it to work without a privileged shell, you have to have the cygserver running as a service under the LocalSystem account. -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
