Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Tom Weichmann" To: Kutschera Peter , cygwin Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:11:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Win98 and /etc/passwd ?? Reply-to: tomcw@localnet.com Message-ID: <3940ED1F.193.EE0E1@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) > Sorry about this maybe silly question: > > How to create /etc/passwd on Win98 ? > > When trying to run mkpasswd or mkgroup I get an error popup about a > missing Export-NETAPI32.dll:NatApiBufferFree mkpasswd/mkgroup only work for WinNT. > I tried to create /etc/passwd by hand (Empty password) but got "login > incorrect" > > Also the info from inetutils-1.3.2.README did not help. > > Any hints / links / READMEs available? You need to create this file by hand. The only part that is a pain is the password it self. to get a crypted password into a file use the crypt command as follows crypt mypasswordhere >>/etc/passwd This puts the encrypted password in the passwd file with a trailing \n. Next edit the file and add the rest of the info needed in passwd, ie: username:password:uid:gid:realname:homedir:shell tom:sdlakjlkwej:500:547:Tom:/home/tom:/bin/bash NOTE If you are using ftp as well, and you want to use bash as your shell create a file called /etc/shells. Put the following into the file /bin/sh /bin/bash Otherwise ftp will not function correctly. Hope this helps, Tom Weichmann -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com