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: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:33:39 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Archives: Why am I administrator? Message-ID: <20010206203339.C14172@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A80A113.7D57350C@beamreachnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A80A113.7D57350C@beamreachnetworks.com>; from emonsler@beamreachnetworks.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:12:51PM -0800 On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:12:51PM -0800, Eric M. Monsler wrote: >Hi, > >I just searched the archives, finding the answer to my question in the >thread "Why am I administrator?" > >Near the end of that thread: > >>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. > >The example in the current User's Guide, to do "mkpasswd -l > >/etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -l > /etc/group", was insufficient in my >case. I scanned the chapter on ntsec, without gaining much insight into >why I was administrator. This was before hitting the archives. > >My problem was solved by the post that suggested essentially "mkpasswd >-d | grep my_ntusername >> /etc/passwd", by David Peterson (Thanks >Dave!). Also, I used mkgroup -d, although I did not append everything. > >I would like to suggest two things: > >1) Is Dave's approach correct in all/most cases? Can someone more NT >domain knowledgeable comment? > >2) If so, can the User's Guide be changed to reflect that? I have >attached a first cut at a modified section for setup-dir.html that would >have directed me to take the steps I did. > >I had produced a new version of the page, with nice formatting, etc., >but the mailer-daemon bounced it from the list. My apologies for not >sending a patch, but since I did it with Composer everything was >diff'erent. I suspect that the source for the User's Guide is not in >HTML, anyway. It's not. It is in sgml and it is included with the cygwin source, if you want to take a stab at producing a true diff. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple