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Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin on XP laptop part of a domain
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:04:26 -0700
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Hi All...

Here is what I use (excerpt from a script) to see it on the screen and 
update it.

echo
echo Setting up /etc/group
echo
mkgroup -l | tee /etc/group
mkgroup -d -g 'Domain Users' | tee -a /etc/group

echo
echo Setting up /etc/passwd
echo
mkpasswd -l | tee /etc/passwd
mkpasswd -d -p /home -u "$(id -un)" | tee -a /etc/passwd

For additional users, repeat the last line with each username instead of 
"$(id -un)".

For additional groups, repeat the  last mkgroup line for each group. For 
small domains, you can include everything, but for a large domain (as I am 
in) I only reference what I need.

HTH,

...Karl


>From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin on XP laptop 
>part of a domain
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:18:53 -0400
>
>Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
>>>From: Jay NYC
>>>
>>>Can someone who has experience installing Cygwin on a WinXP desktop part 
>>>of a  Windows Domain let me know what to do?
>>
>>You need to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using mkpasswd and 
>>mkgroup.
>>
>>The domain I am in has around 3000 groups and lots of users.
>>Enumerating all the users takes a while.
>>
>>All I need to do is (something like):
>>
>>mkgroup > /etc/group
>>mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
>>mkpasswd -d -u my_username >> /etc/passwd
>>
>>The first mkpasswd adds the local accounts and the second invocation adds 
>>my domain account.   mkpasswd --help for
>>more details.
>>
>>Then edit /etc/passwd and change your home directory a local
>>path - perhaps /home/username.
>
>
>There's a flag for 'mkpasswd' that let's you specify the home
>directory you want directly.  Sorry, don't recall what it is
>off-hand and don't have access to it to look right now.
>
>
>
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