Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-13 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | I have the latest greatest Cygwin possible (don't have | version numbers in front of me at the moment), but mkpasswd -u | means "make a password entry just for the given user" | OK, thanks for pointing that out. Although I think that other then the amount of time require

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-13 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:56 AM 2/13/2002, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but > > I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh > > attempt). You don't have this problem ?

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Ryan T. Sammartino
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag, > because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option. I have the latest greatest Cygwin possible (don't have version numbers in front of me at the moment), but mkpasswd -

RE: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag, > because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option. > You have an old mkpasswd. "-u,--username username only return information for the specified user" is relatively new. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscri

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Alex BATKO
+--- | On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: | > | > OK. I have a particular user who already has a windows account, | > but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy) | > to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin). | >

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Ryan T. Sammartino
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > OK. I have a particular user who already has a windows account, > but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy) > to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin). > This is what I do: #! /bin/bas

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Alex BATKO
OK. I have a particular user who already has a windows account, but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy) to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin). What I did so far is `mkpasswd -d | grep billy >> /etc/passwd`. Then billy tries to do `ssh host_name -

Re: how to create a new user

2002-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote: > > Where in the documentation on the cygwin site is there information > about how to create a new user ? Nowhere. It's in the Windows documentation. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin t