From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: How do I setup user accounts in Win95 ? 3 Mar 1998 05:13:47 -0800 Message-ID: <19980303030828.22059.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: sikwyk AT cs DOT curtin DOT edu DOT au Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 01:57:29 +0800 >From: Kevin Sik >To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" >CC: Kevin Sik >Subject: How do I setup user accounts in Win95 ? > >Hi All, > >First of all, if this is in some faq, please kindly point it out to me. Well, it was in the FAQ for b18 and I doubt that it has been removed. > >Is it there a mkpasswd and mkgroup for Win95 ? If not, how can I setup >accounts for users ? > W95 is not a secure environment, so the Win32 api functions that are declared to be NT only will not return a user/password/group or any other related data. Therefore, it is not possible with W95 ot have mkpasswd or mkgroup work. >Any pointers/info/advice will be much appreciated. > Get WinNT if you want a secured system. (This is not said to start any flaming wars, so don't start one). > >Regards, >Kevin > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) SEARCH ENGINES WITH gnu-win32 mail archive RELATED INDICIES: http://www.findmail.com http://www.search.com add gnu-win32 or gnuwin32 to the search criteria. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".