serveral questions regarding passwd and group on NT

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:13 PM 2/5/2002, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
>I just installed cygwin on XP...so I am quite a
>newbie, to unix as a whole, actually.
>
>I did mkpass -l > passwd and mkgroup...okay, I know
>how I can select individual user and group to use by
>using the grep command...however, can I use a group /
>user that's NOT on my WINXP machine? say, root / root?


No.  Cygwin relies on Windows for security information 
(that statement sound almost laughable when I re-read it! ;-) )


>If I remember correctly, in UNIX root has speical GID
>and UID?? can I just simply add lines that correspond
>to root / root and expect it to work in cygwin? also,


No.


>when it import group / user from winxp, it addes a
>whole bunch of wierd number with "-" can any one
>explain to me what does each :: field represent? Can I
>safely manipulate those number? Is there any unix
>convention I can follow?


Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html.  As a matter of 
fact, it would be good for you to review all the available documentation
at www.cygwin.com, the email archives, and documentation under /usr/doc
for any newbie questions.  Many of these have probably been asked before.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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