X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: XP User Account Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:36:05 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20070923081750.3752@blackhawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <20070923081750.3752@blackhawk> OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 d.henman wrote: > Platform: XP Home Edition >=20 > I want to set up exim, the smtp server and would like to=20 > create a user, named "exim" for this daemon process and its files. >=20 > I don't know who to do this without have the "exim" user name coming up o= n the login screen along with the other users.=20=20 >=20 > Does anywone know how to accomplish this? In XP Home Edition. Copy the way ssh-host-config does it: net user sshd /add /fullname:"sshd privsep" "/homedir:${dos_var_empty}" /active:no > /dev/null mkpasswd -l -u sshd | sed -e 's/bash$/false/' >> ${SYSCONFDIR}/passwd where dos_var_empty is /var/empty for sshd, but you can put something else. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/