Subject: RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"
From: "Bleyer, Michael" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Bernard Dautrevaux'" <[email-masked]>, "'Peter Buckley'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:24:41 +0100

Thanx for your quick advice (it works). May I suggest an extension (add to
FAQ?):

change the batch file cygwin.bat as follows:

### snip ###
@echo off
C:
chdir \cygwin

bin\grep -q %USERNAME%: etc\passwd
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO setuppass
goto start

:setuppass
bin\mkpasswd -l > etc\passwd
bin\mkpasswd -d | grep %USERNAME% >> etc\passwd

:start
chdir \cygwin\bin
bash --login -i

### snap ###

This checks if the WinNT domain USERNAME is already in the passwd file. If
not, it gets appended.
So this works automatically even with a user switching machines (first time
login) without the necessity to add all domain users to every machine.
Of course in big domains mkpasswd -d causes a delay, but that will only
happen once during first-time login.

Alternatively, how about an option/script that runs from setup.exe, by
default asking to add the current WinNT user to the passwd file?

greetings,
Michael

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