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Subject: mkpasswd, mkgroup - initial setup of group, home dir
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:14:46 -0700
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Hi, I installed on a networked computer, but i don't want my cygwin to be 
part of that network as far as username/groups go (I don't want to add all 
the users to my group or passwd files)
I was assigned  "robert.body" as username and my group name is "mkgroup-l-d"

I would like to change these to "Owner" and "mygroup", and I would like my 
default home directory to be /home/Owner  (which is really 
C:\cygwin\home\owner in windows). The system insists on making my home 
directory "/cygdrive/u" even if I modify /etc/passwd file

I read about "mkpasswd -d" - well I don't want people on network added to my 
cygwin setup,
I read about "mkgroup -d" - well I want to make my own group
(I did a search through the mailing list archives, and lots of hits on 
mkpasswd, but nothing that I need during the many emails i went through)

-Robert

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currently my /etc/groups is
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...
mkgroup-l-d:S-1-5-32-545:10545:

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currently my /etc/passwd is the following, but system just ignores my 
"/home/Owner" and just ALWAYS puts me into /cygdrive/u on startup
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...
tmersrvd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1018:513:tmersrvd,U-DPC6528\tmersrvd,S-1-5-21-2735870922-10702009508:/home/tmersrvd:/bin/bash
robert.body:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:13550:10545:robert.body,U-DEN\robert.body,S-1-5-21-1659004503-4815-3550:/home/Owner:/bin/bash



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