useradd & user ids

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Apr 20 19:44:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Kelem wrote:

> How do I set my user & group id to a specific value?  I would like it to
> match the uid & gid assigned by Linux on our main server.
> If my local settings match the main server's, then ssh works more
> smoothly.

Do you mean the name or the numeric value?  In either case, just edit
/etc/passwd and /etc/group on Cygwin -- the SID is the only value that
really matters as far as Windows is concerned.  All the rest is up to you.
HTH,
	Igor
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