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Ugh - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted.


According to Manel Rodero on 1/19/2006 3:13 AM:
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>>From: cygwin-owner AT xxxx DOT xxx
                    ^^^^^^^^^

Ugh - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

>>>Why? Because its primary group is "mkgroup-l-d". So I need
>>
>>to change this
>>
>>>first by running "mkpasswd -l" and "mkgroup -l". In this manner this
>>>domain account can create /home/pkuser and then create here a .ssh
>>>directory with the authorized_keys I need to implement public key
>>>authentication.

> Now I need to split the unattended script in two parts: a) first recreate
> the passwd/group files and b) exit the shell, execute again cygwin so the
> Admin have the correct passwd/group (CYGWIN DOESN'T HAVE THE NEWGRP COMMAND)
> and execute 'ssh-host-config'.

I've brought this up before, and the reply was
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.  Does anyone know where source code for a
Linux version of newgrp is located?  I'm already looking at making su
work, and that alters the current gid, maybe I can throw together a newgrp
implementation for cygwin if I have an example to look at.

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