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: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:20:24 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: why I can not make normal user and set hostname? Message-ID: <20010819122024.A16256@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010819015309.16266.qmail@web14207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010819015309.16266.qmail@web14207.mail.yahoo.com>; from tourjin@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:53:09AM +0900 On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:53:09AM +0900, jinhyuk choi wrote: > I create /etc/passwd > root::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash > jiny::501:545:jiny:/home/jiny:/bin/bash > /etc/group > root::544: > jiny::545: > > mkpasswd -l makes only 'unknown' user and > /home/unknown > so I edited it, now ls -l option shows me successfully > > owner is root but, can not chown /home/jiny to jiny's. > no error or warning but did not changed to jiny. > > how can I make normal user? > [...] > win-me You can't on 9x/ME. It's no multiuser OS. It's barely an OS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/