Unable to start Cygwin64 terminal after password change

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Mon Aug 2 21:21:14 GMT 2021


Greetings, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]!

>> > Did you reboot your system since password change? I mean proper reboot, not
>> 
>> It was properly rebooted with "shutdown /r"
>>

> But TBH, I did this out of lack of anything else:  I don't think a reboot should be necessary when a password
> is changing.  Nothing else on the machine was required to reboot it:

That's generally true, as at most you'd have to re-login to make network cache
update.
I asked this in case something like cygserver was running, or that your user
SID had changed in the meantime (f.e. due to domain migration).
That would actually require a proper reboot.

> Outlook just re-asked for the new password
> after some time, but everything else kept working except for "Cygwin64 terminal"...


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 0:19:18

Sorry for my terrible english...



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