On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:38:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear group, > > is the passwd command supposed to work on NT? > I always get the message: > passwd: unknown user LEHNFR > although I added the account to my /etc/passwd using > mkpasswd -d <our domain>|grep LEHNFR >>/etc/passwd > and checked for /etc/group too. Is there anything else I have to do?
passwd is not domain controller aware and works only on a local machine or on the domain controller itself. Patches gratefully accepted. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/