Common installation, user ID

[Harold L Hunt II]

Manzoorul Hassan wrote:
> I would like to install cygwin in a common location (shared directory) 
> so that we can use the same install from all of our machines. Which 
> files (DLLs) should be installed on the individual machines?
> 

Not sure, sorry.

> Also, how do I update the /etc/passwd file to reflect the windows domain 
> users who are going to be logging/using cygwin?
> 

You can run:
mkpasswd -u %USER_NAME% -d >> /etc/passwd

Where you have either replaced %USER_NAME% with the users actual user 
name, or you have found out what platform-specific shell variable to use 
in place of %USER_NAME%.  In Cygwin's bash, this may be the USER shell 
variable, in which case you could always run, from a Cygwin bash prompt:

mkpasswd -u $USER -d >> /etc/passwd

The $USER will be substituted by bash with the user's actual user name.

> Currently, irrespective of the user that I am logged in as, the 'id' 
> command shows that the user is Administrator (and a ls command on any of 
> the file systems shows the owner of the files/dirs to be user=Administ, 
> group=None). Did I miss a setup step?
> 
> I really appreciate all your help.
> 
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