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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:19:29 -0400
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: useradd
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At 01:43 PM 8/11/2001, you wrote:
>Hi !
>
>Is there any command like 'useradd' and 'groupadd' on cygwin ?


No.  Cygwin piggybacks off of NT/W2K's capabilities in this area.  Create
new users and groups using those facilities and then update /etc/passwd
and /etc/group with mkpasswd and mkgroup.  On 9x/Me, well, you know how 
it is... ;-)



Larry


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