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From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM AT learnquick DOT com>
To: "'Raz'" <coolmandan AT gmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: How to add user under Cygwin
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26:36 -0500
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> AFAIK, Windows 9x did not ship with the "net" command. I 
> think you could download the "net" command in some form for 
> Windows 98, but I don't know how close it is to the 
> WinNT/Win2000/WinXP version.

The Net (add/view/etc) command is on the 9x
platforms but there are some minor differences
with the NT version(s) even in the main commands,
and I am unsure about the subcommands that deal
with accounts which likely would be missing since
9x had no accounts database.

Herb Martin, MCT, MCSD, MCSE, MVP
HerbM AT LearnQuick DOT Com http://LearnQuick.Com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Raz
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:18 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: How to add user under Cygwin
> 
> On 7/20/05, Christopher Faylor 
> <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:23:31PM -0400, Etienne Mbuyi wrote:
> > >$ net user AyamJ password /add /yes
> > >$ net localgroup <an_local_group> AyamJ /add $ mkpassd -l 
> -u AyamJ >> 
> > >/etc/passwd
> > 
> > Does this work on Windows 9x, too?  It seems like some kind 
> of script 
> > or program which packaged these commands into a "useradd" 
> or "adduser" 
> > would be pretty valuable for cygwin.
> 
> AFAIK, Windows 9x did not ship with the "net" command. I 
> think you could download the "net" command in some form for 
> Windows 98, but I don't know how close it is to the 
> WinNT/Win2000/WinXP version.
> 
> > 
> > Anyone interested in researching this?
> > 
> > cgf
> > 
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