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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:33:39 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Archives: Why am I administrator?
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In-Reply-To: <3A80A113.7D57350C@beamreachnetworks.com>; from emonsler@beamreachnetworks.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:12:51PM -0800

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:12:51PM -0800, Eric M. Monsler wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just searched the archives, finding the answer to my question in the
>thread "Why am I administrator?"
>
>Near the end of that thread:
>
>>At 02:35 AM 1/11/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Create a correct /etc/passwd entry, that's it. `mkpasswd' will be
>>>your friend. And read the documentation. That helps a lot and avoids
>>>having _everything_ twice, in the documentation and in the FAQ.
>
>The example in the current User's Guide, to do "mkpasswd -l >
>/etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -l > /etc/group", was insufficient in my
>case.  I scanned the chapter on ntsec, without gaining much insight into
>why I was administrator.  This was before hitting the archives.
>
>My problem was solved by the post that suggested essentially "mkpasswd
>-d | grep my_ntusername >> /etc/passwd", by David Peterson (Thanks
>Dave!).  Also, I used mkgroup -d, although I did not append everything.
>
>I would like to suggest two things:
>
>1) Is Dave's approach correct in all/most cases?  Can someone more NT
>domain knowledgeable comment?
>
>2) If so, can the User's Guide be changed to reflect that?  I have
>attached a first cut at a modified section for setup-dir.html that would
>have directed me to take the steps I did.
>
>I had produced a new version of the page, with nice formatting, etc.,
>but the mailer-daemon bounced it from the list.  My apologies for not
>sending a patch, but since I did it with Composer everything was
>diff'erent.  I suspect that the source for the User's Guide is not in
>HTML, anyway.

It's not.  It is in sgml and it is included with the cygwin source, if
you want to take a stab at producing a true diff.

cgf

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