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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:57:48 -0500
From: Alex BATKO <abatko AT milquetoast DOT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: how to create a new user
Message-ID: <20020212135748.O27351@cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <20020212133506 DOT N27351 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca> <20020212194551 DOT K14241 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>
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In-Reply-To: <20020212194551.K14241@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:45:51PM +0100


OK.  I have a particular user who already has a windows account,
but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy)
to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin).

What I did so far is `mkpasswd -d | grep billy >> /etc/passwd`.

Then billy tries to do `ssh host_name -l billy`, but billy gets
permission denied.

So then i thought that billy might need a new password, so i ran
`passwd billy`, and gave him a new password.  Still no luck.

This is why I was asking about documentation about creating a new
user.  Windows documentation is not enough;  this is cygwin related.

Do you have any idea about what I should try to let this user log in ?

Thanks for your time.


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| On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
| > 
| > Where in the documentation on the cygwin site is there information
| > about how to create a new user ?
| 
| Nowhere.  It's in the Windows documentation.
| 
| Corinna
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