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: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:40:53 +0800 From: Greg Matheson To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Creating a new user account in cygwin Message-ID: <20011031174053.A7718@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <209E67A4BA29D511A25B006097B6F6880797CD@mse.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <209E67A4BA29D511A25B006097B6F6880797CD@mse.harvard.edu>; from pallen@ipa.harvard.edu on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:03:21 -0500 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Peter Allen wrote: > I've checked all the info online, and can't figure > out how to be a different user. I think you have to do things like change to the user you want to be under W2K, then do mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and then log off and back on again. Or is the order wrong here? -- Greg Matheson Those who can do. Chinmin College Those who can't teach. --G B Shaw Taiwan Penpals Archive -- 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/