On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
frankly, it seems like a bug, and if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, it will surely begin to bite others...
---- Isn't the idea of using the PIN login to get rid of the use (and the ability) to use passwords? I agree with you that it is likely to cause problems, but creating a block to using a password seems to be intentional. It's a bit like some of the problems with the 'Oauth' system where one provider (like google) provides a way to allow you to login to other sites using your google authentication, but not requiring you give the "other site" a password. When I first read about it though, it seemed like the authorization process required web access for the authorization to be exchanged, but I'm not 100% sure about that. If it required web-auth, that has its own set of problems. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
