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Re: passwd.exe trouble
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: passwd.exe trouble
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:03:15 +0100
- References: <20001122141210.A22415@MageNet.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
"Julia A . Case" wrote:
>
> I copied part of the /etc/passwd file down from my linux box... I wanted
> to change my password (since it doesn't seem to work) so I tried passwd
> and I get the following error.
>
> Error Starting Program : the passwd.exe file is linked to a missing export
> netapi32.dll:NetApiBufferFree.
Which means that you are using Windows 9x/ME. `passwd' is only working
on NT/W2K systems since it accesses the NT user database. If you
want to create passwords on 9X call `crypt'.
However, the password encryption is actually the same as on Linux boxes
when using DES. They are exchangable.
Corinna
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