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, 15 Mar 2001 12:57:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Adding new users Message-ID: <20010315125754.C12630@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rroberts@hoagie.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:00:48AM -0500 On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:00:48AM -0500, Rick Roberts wrote: > I have installed the 1.1.8 version of cygwin. How do I add new accounts to > it? So many programs want to see a root login account, I have added a root > account to my Win2k users, but I can't find an adduser script/program to > setup the root account with. There isn't one. You'll have to use the native NT mechanisms/tools or write a Cygwin version by yourself. After adding user(s) you can add them to /etc/passwd by using the output of mkpasswd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple