What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?

2010-03-05 Thread scotch123
notation that goes to their webroot folder so they can use SFTP. If someone could explain, or direct me to an explanation, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Scotch -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/What-do-the-Cygwin-passwd-file-entry-sections-mean--tp27795086p27795086.html Sent from

Re: What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?

2010-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 3/5/2010 10:06 AM, scotch123 wrote: Hello, My apologies for the newbie question. I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin /etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user name and the home directory and bash shell: