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 Message-ID: <003c01c2d74c$f3291f40$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Malghan, Ravi" , References: Subject: Re: how to set a passwd for a user Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:55:01 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Malghan, Ravi wrote: > Hello: I did a mkpasswd -d , grepped for my username > and added that line to /etc/passwd file. The passwd shows up as > "unused_by_nt/2000/xp". How do I set the passwd? In Windows. > > rmalghan:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11904:10513:Malghan, > Ravi,U-STERLING\rmalghan,S-1-5-21-357909863-1982466852-483988704-1904:/home/ > rmalghan:/bin/bash > > Thanks in advance > Ravi -- 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/