Hi everyone,
Following on from this note, I am a bit confused my mkpasswd. On my unix
system, it will generate a password for a user, but under cygwin it appears that
it just prints out the /etc/passwd file to stdout! Is there another tool that
will add a user to the file, or am I missing something here?!
Any enlightening would be appreciated. Here's what I get when I do help on
mkpasswd:
bash-2.05a$ mkpasswd --help
Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]
This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout
Options:
-l,--local print local user accounts
-d,--domain print domain accounts (from current domain
if no domain specified)
-o,--id-offset offset change the default offset (10000) added to uids
in domain accounts.
-g,--local-groups print local group information too
if no domain specified
-m,--no-mount don't use mount points for home dir
-s,--no-sids don't print SIDs in GCOS field
(this affects ntsec)
-p,--path-to-home path if user account has no home dir, use
path instead of /home/
-?,--help displays this message
One of `-l', `-d' or `-g' must be given on NT/W2K.
Many thanks,
Dave
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David Hay
11/20/2001 04:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding new user 'nobody' - PLEASE help!
Hi everyone. I have installed cygwin on NT, and am at the end of my rope trying
to add a new user called nobody!
I have added CYGWIN=ntsec, and have created a user under NT of nobody, in group
Users. I believe I have to add a line to the /etc/passwd file, but have tried
everything I can think of, and I still get the message chown: `nobody': invalid
user. I can, however, chown using one of the existing users in /etc/passwd no
problem. By the way, how did they get there?!
Would *really* appreciate some help here, as I have gone as far as I can!
Many thanks,
Dave
PS Please cc me into the reply!
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