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Re: Failed password for invalid user


Greetings, jesus san miguel!

> I wanted to avoid case sensitive problems by duplicating users in
> /etc/passwd,

Just delete that file already.

> but I find mixed results:
> I can login as "Administrator", "MYPC+Administrator" and "miabuela",
> but not as "administrator" despite all of them being the same Window
> user.

> This is an excerpt of /etc/passwd:

> $ cat /etc/passwd | grep 500
> SSFE009W2012+Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> miabuela:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> Administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
> administrator:*:197108:197121:U-SSFE009W2012\Administrator,S-1-5-21-3863157116-1840367147-1613345037-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash

> #Administrator@SSFE009W2012 /etc
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW SSFE009W2012 2.7.0(0.306/5/3) 2017-02-12 13:13 i686 Cygwin

> The error I get in windows log is "Failed password for invalid user
> administrator"

Cygwin plugs directly into Windows SAM for years already.
You're just making it hard for yourself.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, March 3, 2017 16:47:15

Sorry for my terrible english...


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