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Re: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:50:26PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@syntrex.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:52 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: WinXP users without password and cygwin_logon_user
> >
> >
> > Hello, there! :)
> >
> > I want to raise this issue again... In short
> > on my WinXP Home cygwin_logon_user fails to log
> > users without password set (or empty passwords - I dont know
> > which is correct to be said). Is this a known issue ? The
> > failed Win32 API is LogonUser. I red the MSDN docu on this
> > API but it was of no help at all... I've tried several
> > different ways to call LogonUser but to no avail:(
> >
> > This issue affects the instructions in the inetutils README
> > file which say that to run anonymous ftp you either have to
> > use Guest or create an account without password named (or
> > mapped) ftp. Still Guest is allowed without pass by
> > LogonUser, but not any other accounts...
>
> There is a policy setting - prevent logons with blank passwords except
> for console users. You could try flipping that and see what happens.
XP Home has no tool to change policies. It must have the policies
stored somewhere, though. I guess it should be possible to write
your own tool to change policies using the normal Lsa policy calls.
Corinna
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