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: <3EF7A1B9.1090909@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:56:25 -0700 From: Eric Benson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Creating users and groups Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this situation on Cygwin? I don't need setuid bits on files, but I want to be able to chmod and chgrp files and su to the userid so that these processes belong to the right user. I confess I don't really know much about Windows. My programs pretend to live in a wholly Unix world. I would hate to have to use a manual process in Windows to create this user. Isn't there some way of doing this from a shell script? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/