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Re: cygwin virtual user


On May 13 18:35, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
> just a qus?
> 
> can we create virtual user in /etc/passwd file
> 
> like for real user entry is
> 
> test:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:real_UID:real_GID:name,U-PC\test,real_SID:/home/test:/bin/bash
> 
> Now above is the real userstring for real user 'test'. can i create a virtual user in cygwin /etc/passwd with values of real user 'test'.
> 
> like for virtual user entry is
> 
> XXXX:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:real_UID:real_GID:name,U-PC\test,real_SID:/home/XXXX:/bin/false
> 
> you can see that only login name, home dir and shell is changed.
> 
> now i just want to know that how can XXXX login with /bin/bash, that doesn't matter. Real thing i want to know is that does this will work with ssh and telnet if i change shell to be /bin/bash and does it work with UW-IMAP, proftpd and UW-POP. like they recognize this user as a real user.
> 
> Anybody got any idea ?

Did you read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-sids ?


Corinna

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