On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:57:05AM +0000, Tiffany Chan wrote: > > I cannot change password of local account using > "passwd" command in Cygwin. > > $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: < i type old password here> > Bad password: Too short. > > I am sure that the password is typed correctly. I am > using w2k server. > > What's wrong ?
As the error message says, your password is too short. That message is generated when the OS returns the error code NERR_PasswordTooShort which means... the password is too short. Your machine has a policy set that the password must have a minimum length, probably. 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/