On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote: > 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?
You can use the `net' command on NT/200[03]/XP to create windows accounts and then `mkpasswd' and/or `mkgroup'. Elfyn -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
