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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:20:24 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: why I can not make normal user and set hostname?
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In-Reply-To: <20010819015309.16266.qmail@web14207.mail.yahoo.com>; from tourjin@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:53:09AM +0900

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:53:09AM +0900, jinhyuk choi wrote:
> I create /etc/passwd
> root::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash                   
> jiny::501:545:jiny:/home/jiny:/bin/bash
> /etc/group
> root::544:
> jiny::545:
> 
> mkpasswd -l makes only 'unknown' user and
> /home/unknown
> so I edited it, now ls -l option shows me successfully
> 
> owner is root but, can not chown /home/jiny to jiny's.
> no error or warning but did not changed to jiny.
> 
> how can I make normal user?
> [...]
> win-me

You can't on 9x/ME. It's no multiuser OS. It's barely an OS.

Corinna

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