X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_NIX_SPAM,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:44:15 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <651210201.20120713044415@mtu-net.ru> To: Earnie Boyd , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Virtual Users In-Reply-To: References: <17316210 DOT 20120712155750 AT mtu-net DOT ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Greetings, Earnie Boyd! >>> I need to create a virtual user,but how? >> >> First question whould be "why", not "how". >> >>> I've already researched on this topic,and it seems you can only 'add' >>> a Windows User to CygWin. >>> But as I'm using CygWin on USB,and so there are always different users >>> as soon as i plug it in,I need to make a virtual user in CygWin. >> >> One doesn't link to another. Sorry. Need more elaboration. >> >>> So,how can this be done? >> >>> If there's no way using CygWin,is there a way to add the needed >>> data(passwd,etc.) manually? >> >> Why? > I understand the why; the OP needs a common user to move between PC > with the USB data. You can't move "user" - the person. If you did mean the account data, this doesn't need creation of a user account for Cygwin needs. > The easiest solution I can think of would be to set Cygwin to always run as > administrator but is the administrator SID always equal between various systems? And another question is: what is the filesystem on that mentioned USB removable?... For FAT drives, this would be obviously pointless. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 13.07.2012, <04:42> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple