Subject: Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)
This would be a nice mechanism for typical windows home systems except for the format of the cygwin tag that goes in the comment field. Home users that utilize 'net user USERNAME "/comment:yadda yadda"' command cannot use equal signs on the command line, and the entire string has to be quoted to prevent angle brackets from messing with redirection. Equal signs are stripped by CMD.exe and the nexted quotes are stripped as well. Example: I entered the following at elevated cmd prompt, C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user TestUser "/comment:<cygwin check="maybe" then="okay>" The command completed successfullly. C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user TestUser User name TestUser Full name Test User Comment <cygwin check=maybe then=okay> ... The command completed successfullly. So, I do not know how to get the information into the field in the proper format. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
