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Re: proposed mkpasswd change


That looks like WinNT or better output.  On Win95 I get..

$ mkpasswd -l
admin:use_crypt:500:544:Administrator:/home/admin:/bin/bash
cygusr:use_crypt:1069:544:cygusr:/home/cygusr:/bin/bash

"Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com> wrote in message
news:20030411190528 dot GC11137 at cygbert dot vinschen dot de dot  dot  dot 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:25:07PM -0500, BB wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this.
> > What is the correct group to propose patches to Cygwin?
> >
> You're right but...
>
> > As I stated in an earlier post, in order to run cron on Win9x, a SYSTEM
user
> > with RID 18 user needs to be defined in /etc/passwd.  mkpasswd was
recently
> > modified to add the admin user.  Would is make sense to also add SYSTEM
user
>
> mkpasswd creates a SYSTEM and a administrators entry already for a long
> time:
>
> $ mkpasswd -l
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> [...]
>
> Corinna
>
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