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Re: password authenticiation problem
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Beverly Klemme <bjklemme at comcast dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:07:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: password authenticiation problem
- References: <423460F8.3070603@comcast.net>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 10:49 AM 3/13/2005, you wrote:
>I have installed cygwin on my WindowsXP laptop. When I try to ssh to username@127.0.0.1 it won't accept my password. I have changed my password and used the passwd command a few times to try to fix the problem.
The last sentence in the User's Guide on 'passwd' may explain things here:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd>
Use Windows to change your password.
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