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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 03:47:56 -0800 (PST)
From: David Rasmussen <pinkfloydhomer AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Adding new user
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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I can imagine that this must get asked all the time,
yet I wasn't able to find anything useful on Google or
anywhere else.

How do I create a new user account? I know that it
probably has to exist as a Windows user first. So I
created a new Windows user. But then what? How do I
get cygwin to make a /home/newuser dir and understand
that the user exists (in /etc/passwd etc.) so I can do
"su - newuser" etc. ?

/David

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