Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020205150042.02087448@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:05:05 -0500 To: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> Subject: Re: serveral questions regarding passwd and group on NT In-Reply-To: <20020205191305.68117.qmail@web14207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:13 PM 2/5/2002, Ling F. Zhang wrote: >I just installed cygwin on XP...so I am quite a >newbie, to unix as a whole, actually. > >I did mkpass -l > passwd and mkgroup...okay, I know >how I can select individual user and group to use by >using the grep command...however, can I use a group / >user that's NOT on my WINXP machine? say, root / root? No. Cygwin relies on Windows for security information (that statement sound almost laughable when I re-read it! ;-) ) >If I remember correctly, in UNIX root has speical GID >and UID?? can I just simply add lines that correspond >to root / root and expect it to work in cygwin? also, No. >when it import group / user from winxp, it addes a >whole bunch of wierd number with "-" can any one >explain to me what does each :: field represent? Can I >safely manipulate those number? Is there any unix >convention I can follow? Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. As a matter of fact, it would be good for you to review all the available documentation at www.cygwin.com, the email archives, and documentation under /usr/doc for any newbie questions. Many of these have probably been asked before. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/