Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:17:06 -0800 From: "Ryan T. Sammartino" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: how to create a new user Message-ID: <20020212211706.GA31833@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020212133506 DOT N27351 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca> <20020212194551 DOT K14241 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20020212135748 DOT O27351 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020212135748.O27351@cs.mcgill.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://members.shaw.ca/ryants On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > 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). > This is what I do: #! /bin/bash mkpasswd -d -u $1 | sed -e 's/:$[A-Za-z0-9_-]\+$,$[A-Za-z0-9_-]\+$,U-/:\2\1,U-/g' >> /etc/passwd Save that as "adduser.sh", then you can just "adduser.sh billy". The sed script is to turn real names from Lastname, Firstname to Firstname Lastname, since the extra comma causes issues. If that isn't an issue for you, then remove the sed script. -- Ryan T. Sammartino http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school. -- 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/