Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Adding new user Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:01:35 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <12e0b6lqz86v5.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <20030215114756.94355.qmail@web40811.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.3.1 * David Rasmussen (03-02-15 12:47 +0100) > How do I create a new user account? I know that it > probably has to exist as a Windows user first. So I > created a new Windows user. But then what? How do I > get cygwin to make a /home/newuser dir This is done automatically when the login shell for that user is executed first. > and understand that the user exists (in /etc/passwd etc.) man mkpasswd > so I can do "su -newuser" etc. ? less /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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/