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Re: adding a user in cygwin
- From: Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr at ata dot cs dot hun dot edu dot tr>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:06:10 +0200
- Subject: Re: adding a user in cygwin
- References: <loom.20040205T162721-210@post.gmane.org>
Hello, Tony.
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Tony wrote:
> We have setup cygwin on an 2000 server and have the need to add a user to
> the box. We have added the user to the local admins and want to update
> the /etc/passwd file to reflect this. Do you have to do a recreation of
> the /etc/passwd file or is there a "useradd" command?
Does "mkpasswd -l |grep ^newuser: >>/etc/passwd" work for you? Or you
can recreate it if you haven't customized it.
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
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