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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:22:01 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin:groupadd & useradd Message-ID: <20030213142201.GM5822@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <070b01c2d368$ee4bcdc0$9c00140a AT uk DOT circle DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <070b01c2d368$ee4bcdc0$9c00140a@uk.circle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:05:14PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote: > On any of the NT based windows versions (2000 or XP) all user management is > handled by windows, so you can use the net command to add groups or users > from the command line, and you can then use mkpasswd and mkgroup to update > the cygwin passwd and group files. > wouldnt be too hard to knock up a shell script to emulate the unix utils I > guess. Yup, just use the NT CLI tools already available: net user net group net localgroup Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/