X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <453645DD.6020408@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:18:53 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin on XP laptop part of a domain References: <026DCC31AB859648A6F16C0E5CD2580DADBFE5@calttsv025.cal.riotinto.org> In-Reply-To: <026DCC31AB859648A6F16C0E5CD2580DADBFE5@calttsv025.cal.riotinto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote: >> From: Jay NYC >> >> Can someone who has experience installing Cygwin on a WinXP >> desktop part of a Windows Domain let me know what to do? > > You need to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using > mkpasswd and mkgroup. > > The domain I am in has around 3000 groups and lots of users. > Enumerating all the users takes a while. > > All I need to do is (something like): > > mkgroup > /etc/group > mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > mkpasswd -d -u my_username >> /etc/passwd > > The first mkpasswd adds the local accounts and the second > invocation adds my domain account. mkpasswd --help for > more details. > > Then edit /etc/passwd and change your home directory a local > path - perhaps /home/username. There's a flag for 'mkpasswd' that let's you specify the home directory you want directly. Sorry, don't recall what it is off-hand and don't have access to it to look right now. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/