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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:06:10 +0200
From: Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr AT ata DOT cs DOT hun DOT edu DOT tr>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: adding a user in cygwin
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Hello, Tony.

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Tony wrote:
>    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? 

Does "mkpasswd -l |grep ^newuser: >>/etc/passwd" work for you? Or you
can recreate it if you haven't customized it.

With kind regards,
Baurjan.

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