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Re: How can I set up users?
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Baras, Gal" <Gal dot Baras at det dot qld dot gov dot au>,"cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:07:08 -0000
- Subject: Re: How can I set up users?
- References: <CDF4E345F9B6D6119B9E00B0D0D0BD6D7FF2A9@ITH-EXCH-1>
Baras, Gal wrote:
> The complete answer to my question was that a user was required in
> /etc/passwd. To find this user's ID, I had to use 'ls -ln' on some
> files I owned, then copy the Administrator line, change the ID from
> 500 to my own (400) and the pw_gecos field to "my_domain\my_user_ID".
Umm. That's kind of messy.
Try:
$ man mkpasswd
$ man mkgroup
Max.
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