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From: Tony <tony DOT peacham AT pioneerinvest DOT ie>
Subject: adding a user in cygwin
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:29:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

   We have setup cygwin on an 2000 server and have the need to add a user to 
the box. We have added the user to the local admins and want to update 
the /etc/passwd file to reflect this. Do you have to do a recreation of 
the /etc/passwd file or is there a "useradd" command? 

regards

Tony


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