Creating users and groups

[Eric Benson]

I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and 
group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user 
and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those 
don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this 
situation on Cygwin? I don't need setuid bits on files, but I want to be 
able to chmod and chgrp files and su to the userid so that these 
processes belong to the right user. I confess I don't really know much 
about Windows. My programs pretend to live in a wholly Unix world. I 
would hate to have to use a manual process in Windows to create this 
user. Isn't there some way of doing this from a shell script?

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