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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:40:53 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Creating a new user account in cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <209E67A4BA29D511A25B006097B6F6880797CD@mse.harvard.edu>; from pallen@ipa.harvard.edu on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:03:21 -0500

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Peter Allen wrote:


> I've checked all the info online, and can't figure
> out how to be a different user.

I think you have to do things like change to the user you want to
be under W2K, then do mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and then log off
and back on again. Or is the order wrong here?

-- 
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