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What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?
- From: scotch123 <rcobb at keene dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:06:36 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hello,
My apologies for the newbie question.
I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin
/etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user
name and the home directory and bash shell:
corinna:unused:11001:11125:U-BAR\corinna,S-1-5-21-2913048732-1697188782-3448811101-1001:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
I can't seem to find what the three things in the middle are.
I want to write up a how-to for a co-worker that explains what each segment
is before explaining how to change a user's home directory path from the
Unix default to the Windows/Cygwin notation that goes to their webroot
folder so they can use SFTP.
If someone could explain, or direct me to an explanation, I'd be grateful.
Thanks,
Scotch
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