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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:57:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Default user accounts ?
Message-ID: <20010531165719.M1870@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010531094807.0217e570@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:50:08AM -0400

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:50:08AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 07:45 AM 5/31/2001, piotr cygwin wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've just installed Cygwin on WinNT workstation (but with FAT filesytems) with the automatic "setup.exe" installer.
> >
> >The user account that has been created (and which is the default account when I launch bash) is "Administrator". Cygwin has not used at all my NT username (at least it is not present in /etc/passwd). So:
> >
> >- Is it normal ?
> 
> 
> Yes, it a Windowsism.  We're stuck with it.

????????????????????????????????????????????

> >- Is there a specific procedure to create an account
> >  related to an NT account, or should I just do it
> >  manually by adding an entry in /etc/passwd, with
> >  the same username ?
> >
> 
> 
> Just change "Administrator" to your user name in /etc/passwd.

Gack!!! No, please don't do that. If you actually have another
user account which you want to use, add it to /etc/passwd.

The reason it's not in /etc/passwd now is either the account
didn't exist when `mkpasswd' has been called by setup or
your account is not a local account but a domain account.

Setup just calls `mkpasswd -l' to create a default passwd
file with the existing local accounts. To add domain accounts
you'll have to call `mkpasswd -d <domain>' and add the relevant
output to /etc/passwd. The same for /etc/group and the `mkgroup'
command.

Corinna

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