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Re: Common installation, user ID
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: Manzoorul Hassan <manzoor at intRnauts dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:32:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Common installation, user ID
- References: <3D358AF5.4060802@intRnauts.com>
Manzoorul Hassan wrote:
I would like to install cygwin in a common location (shared directory)
so that we can use the same install from all of our machines. Which
files (DLLs) should be installed on the individual machines?
Not sure, sorry.
Also, how do I update the /etc/passwd file to reflect the windows domain
users who are going to be logging/using cygwin?
You can run:
mkpasswd -u %USER_NAME% -d >> /etc/passwd
Where you have either replaced %USER_NAME% with the users actual user
name, or you have found out what platform-specific shell variable to use
in place of %USER_NAME%. In Cygwin's bash, this may be the USER shell
variable, in which case you could always run, from a Cygwin bash prompt:
mkpasswd -u $USER -d >> /etc/passwd
The $USER will be substituted by bash with the user's actual user name.
Currently, irrespective of the user that I am logged in as, the 'id'
command shows that the user is Administrator (and a ls command on any of
the file systems shows the owner of the files/dirs to be user=Administ,
group=None). Did I miss a setup step?
I really appreciate all your help.
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