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 Message-ID: <3BC4517A.35772994@pride.coalnet.ru> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:47:38 +0400 From: "Pride Ltd." Organization: Pride Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: adding new user to Cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since new user added to WinNT 4.0 WKS, I do this (mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd), and still cannot login as new user. Only as user who installed Cygwin. (I'm using Cygwin 1.3.3) -- >>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 -- 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/