Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:47:41 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: why am I administrator? Message-ID: <20010111114741.D14548@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4.3.1.2.20010110163827.021e72b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA1ADB07@kurion_exch.kurion. <4.3.1.2.20010110163827.021e72b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010111083520.U4141@cobold.vinschen.de> <4.3.1.2.20010111103004.021ec190@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010111103004.021ec190@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:32:33AM -0500 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:32:33AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 02:35 AM 1/11/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Create a correct /etc/passwd entry, that's it. `mkpasswd' will be >>your friend. And read the documentation. That helps a lot and avoids >>having _everything_ twice, in the documentation and in the FAQ. > >Right. There's no need to make the FAQ a copy of the user documentation. >An entry that points there for this kind of question would be helpful but >anything much beyond that is overkill and promotes laziness.;-) Welcome to the cygwin mailing list... cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple