My windows username is boffin in the /etc/passwd I have 1 entry makinohd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:14966:10545:nhm1zjt,U-GEAECANADA\nhm1zjt,S -1-5-21-2066620035-1092103790-1905203885-4966:/home:/bin/bash
When I get into the bash shell the user that is there is makinohd. (If I do a whoami makinohd is returned) -----Original Message----- From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3 mai 2007 10:33 To: Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin username Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Thu, 3 May 2007, Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 3 mai 2007 10:18 > To: Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Subject: Re: Cygwin username > > > On Thu, 3 May 2007, Boffin, Stephane (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE) wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > When you log into cygwin using a shell the username used is the > > > windows user name. I have a setup where I would like 10 users from > > > 10 diffrent PC to have one username and 10 other using 10 other pc > > > have an other. > > > > > > This is because I only want to manage 2 user name in the passwd file. > > > > > > Is this possible ? > > > And if yes how do I do that > > > > I don't believe it's possible. First off, entries in /etc/passwd > > contain an SID that identifies the associated Windows user, so you'd > > need to have one entry per Windows user anyway, or they will be > > unrecognized by Cygwin. > > > > You can have multiple entries in /etc/passwd with the same username, > > but when Cygwin looks up a username, it stops at the first one, so > > anyone trying to log in with that username will be treated as the > > first matching user (and will need to enter the password for that user). > > > > On the other hand, you can use the mkpasswd tool to manage your > > /etc/passwd file instead of doing it by hand. > > Igor > > I do not want to use the mkpasswd because I have 500 user on the > network and only 6 - 10 will be using Cygwin. Then take a look at the "-u" option to mkpasswd, and write a script to only grab the users you want. Similarly for mkgroup (with "-g"). > I tried to put only on entry in the /etc/passwd and cygwin uses this > user name but I do not know if this is a bug or a feature. > I would of expected cygwin to send a authentication error ...??? Huh? You'll need to expand on this. What do you mean by "cygwin uses this user name"? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/
