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Re: Win98 and /etc/passwd ??
- To: Kutschera Peter <Peter dot Kutschera at ajc dot at>, cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Win98 and /etc/passwd ??
- From: "Tom Weichmann" <tomcw at localnet dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:11:59 -0700
- Reply-to: tomcw at localnet dot com
> Sorry about this maybe silly question:
>
> How to create /etc/passwd on Win98 ?
>
> When trying to run mkpasswd or mkgroup I get an error popup about a
> missing Export-NETAPI32.dll:NatApiBufferFree
mkpasswd/mkgroup only work for WinNT.
> I tried to create /etc/passwd by hand (Empty password) but got "login
> incorrect"
>
> Also the info from inetutils-1.3.2.README did not help.
>
> Any hints / links / READMEs available?
You need to create this file by hand. The only part that is a pain is
the password it self. to get a crypted password into a file use the
crypt command as follows
crypt mypasswordhere >>/etc/passwd
This puts the encrypted password in the passwd file with a trailing
\n. Next edit the file and add the rest of the info needed in passwd,
ie:
username:password:uid:gid:realname:homedir:shell
tom:sdlakjlkwej:500:547:Tom:/home/tom:/bin/bash
NOTE If you are using ftp as well, and you want to use bash as
your shell create a file called /etc/shells. Put the following into the
file
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
Otherwise ftp will not function correctly.
Hope this helps,
Tom Weichmann
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