Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB440B@exchanger.cacheflow.com> From: "Karr, David" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: Default user accounts ? Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:02:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This is a minor point that I've had to deal with every time I've installed Cygwin. I would think that the majority of installs would want the domain accounts, and not the local accounts. Wouldn't it be useful to have a flag for this on the "setup" windows? -----Original Message----- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:57 AM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Default user accounts ? 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 ' and add the relevant output to /etc/passwd. The same for /etc/group and the `mkgroup' command. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple