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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:42:20 +0200
From: Sylvain DOT Ferriol AT imag DOT fr
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: suggestion for cygutils - usermod (was Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd)
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Surlignage Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>:

> The below message suggests that maybe we should have a usermod program
> in cygwin.  It should probably be in cygutils, I suspect.
> 
> Anyone willing to investigate the linux version of usermod and submit it
> to cygutils (assuming Chuck agrees)?
> 
> cgf
> 

Yes , because i don't want to create a shell doing this:
grep -v $USERNAME /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd
mkpasswd -l -u $USERNAME -p $HOME >> /etc/passwd

sylvain



> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:25:49AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Mon, 12 May 2003 Sylvain DOT Ferriol AT imag DOT fr wrote:
> >
> >> Surlignage Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, 12 May 2003, sferriol wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > hello
> >> > > is there a command to change the home directory of a user in
> /etc/passwd
> >> > > because ssh sees this file before $HOME and i have always a error.
> >> >
> >> > Use an editor to edit /etc/passwd (as has been suggested).  Mind the
> line
> >> > endings (I think).
> >>
> >> no my question is to do this automatically
> >> because when the admin has installed cygwin on a computer, it adds users
> >> and each users has to define the variable HOME,
> >> but if they use ssh, they have to chang /etc/passwd too.
> >>
> >> i want to create a install file which update automatically /etc/passwd,
> puts defaults files (bashrc, inputrc,...)
> >> i see that there is the mkpasswd command but it doesn't do what i want
> >>
> >> do you know when /etc/passwd is created???
> >>
> >> sylvain
> >
> >/etc/passwd is normally created (along with /etc/group) when setup runs
> >the passwd-grp.sh postinstall script.  The program that actually creates
> >the passwd entries is called mkpasswd, and it sets the home directory to
> >/home/<username> by default.
> >
> >One thing you can do is create symbolic links (or, better yet, user
> >mounts) from /home/<username> to that user's $HOME.  That way, you will
> >not have to change /etc/passwd at all.
> 
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