Re: Using usernames and permissions from Windows domain accounts

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Hugo Bouckaert wrote:

> Hi
>
> How can you set up cygwin so that Windows domain usernames are being
> used, rather than what I have now, which is, at the cygwin prompt:
>
> Administrator@machine>
>
> Note that people are logging into the machine as a domain user, but as
> that domain user they are administrator on their local machine. This is
> (I think) why cygwin puts Administrator@machine> at the prompt. However,
> I would like people to have a cygwin prompt which recognises their
> Windows domain username as well as the permissions, so that if they go
> into a directory with cygwin (for example a mapped Z drive), the windows
> permissions are taken into account when commands are given at the cygwin
> prompt.
>
> How can this be done?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Hugo

"man mkpasswd", "man mkgroup", search both for "-d".  Don't forget to make
backup copies of your /etc/passwd and /etc/group before modifying them.
	Igor
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