On Jul 25 06:21, Keith Christian wrote: > --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > Nope. Every account in /etc/passwd needs a real account in Windows, > > given as SID in the pw_gecos field. Cygwin has no own user management > > but relies on Windows' user management. > > > > What you can do is to create (or choose an existing) single account in > > Windows, create three entries for this user in /etc/passwd, edit > > /etc/passwd to give these three accounts different names and different > > Cygwin uids, but let them all still refer to this single Windows > > account. And then expect weirdnesses. For instance, the files created > > by any of these accounts will of course be owned by the underlying > > Windows account. An `ls -l' will always show the files being owned by > > the user entry showing up first in /etc/passwd. They are simply only > > one account actually, whatever you fake in /etc/passwd. > > Hi Corinna, > > Thanks for the explanation. Last evening, the sequence below allowed the > creation of an alternate user. Assume "kchristian" as an existing Windows > user and "keith" as the new Cygwin user. > > 1. As superuser: vi /etc/passwd > > 2. Duplicate an existing Windows user (in my case, "kchristian" user via > "yyp." > > 2. Change the UID from X to X+1: :s/X/X+1/g > > 3. mkdir /home/keith > > 4. chmod -R keith:None /home/keith > > 5. passwd keith As I explained above, this is still the Windows user kchristian. So I assume you know now that you changed the password for the Windows user kchristian. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
