Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd?

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
(Send to the list and the sender)... Bruce P. Osler wrote: For starters - I'd like to contribute to the Cygwin love-fest going on. I think Cygwin is an awesome environment with huge benefits for folks working under windows. Today I'm interested in finding out wether I can use networked passwor

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
Thnx, the pieces fit now. - Bruce At 04:42 PM 12/6/2002 +, Max Bowsher wrote: Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg > S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. No, that's the Windows SID. The password field is the

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg > S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. No, that's the Windows SID. The password field is the one with "unused_by_nt/2000/xp". Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. Sounds like I made the wrong assumption. So ... if this is the case, it sounds like it's workable. Especially so given that the employee roles haven't changed in nearly two years :-/ -

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I was looking for something a bit more dynamic. IIRC - If you do what was suggested, you should only need to rerun mkpasswd when users are added or removed, not when they change their password. Not wonderful, but distinctly better that what you

RE: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
ent: 05 December 2002 22:04 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bruce Osler > Subject: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with > cygwin inetd? > > > For starters - I'd like to contribute to the Cygwin love-fest going > on. I think Cygwin is an awesome environment wi

RE: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd?

2002-12-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 December 2002 22:04 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bruce Osler > Subject: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with > cygwin inetd? > > > For starters - I'd like to contribute to the Cygwin love-fest going > on. I think Cygwin i

Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd?

2002-12-05 Thread Bruce P. Osler
For starters - I'd like to contribute to the Cygwin love-fest going on. I think Cygwin is an awesome environment with huge benefits for folks working under windows. Today I'm interested in finding out wether I can use networked password services with the cygwin inetd. At work I would like to set