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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:14:54 -0800
From: "Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler AT beamreachnetworks DOT com>
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Subject: Modification to setup2.sgml
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Hi all,

Last week I posted a diff to setup2.sgml, based upon discussions in the
archive of using "mkpasswd -d" in addition to "mkpasswd -l" in setting
up the proper UID, etc., in the /etc/passwd file.

I had done a straight diff >file, rather than diff -u > file.  Here is
the result of:
diff -u setup2.sgml EMM_setup2.sgml >setup2.sgml.diff

Eric M. Monsler
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--- setup2.sgml	Mon Nov 20 11:44:05 2000
+++ EMM_setup2.sgml	Wed Feb  7 09:39:37 2001
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@
 <para> Under Windows NT, if you want to create 
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> 
 (i.e. so that <command>whoami</command> works and 
-<command>ls -l</command> replaces the UID with a name) just
-do this:
+<command>ls -l</command> replaces the UID with a name) based on the accounts local to the machine, just do this:
 </para>
 
 <screen>
@@ -93,7 +92,30 @@
 <prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkgroup -l > /etc/group</userinput>
 </screen>
 
-<para> Future changes to your NT registry will NOT be reflected in
+<para>If you are logging in based on an NT network domain, and want to
+also create entries in <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
+<filename>/etc/group</filename> based on all the accounts in the
+domain, then after creating local entries do this:
+</para>
+
+<screen>
+<prompt>/$</prompt> <userinput>cd /etc</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkgroup -d >> /etc/group</userinput>
+</screen>
+
+<para>Alternatively, to add only your account to the passwd file,
+assuming your NT name is "my_ntusername", instead of the above
+<command>mkpasswd</command> you should do:
+</para>
+ 
+<screen>
+<prompt>/$</prompt> <userinput>cd /etc</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkpasswd -d | grep my_ntusername >> /etc/passwd</userinput>
+</screen>
+
+
+<para> Future changes to your NT registry or network domain will NOT be reflected in
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or <filename>/etc/group </filename> after
 this so you may want to regenerate these files periodically.  Under Windows
 9x, you can create and edit these files with a text editor.  </para>


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