How can I set up users?

["Baras, Gal" <Gal dot Baras at det dot qld dot gov dot au>]

I've bumped into various problems (cron, mail, etc) that seem to have a
common theme with respect to user setup.  However, there are no commands to
manage users (useradd, etc) and the password file handling is unusual.

I'm logging on to my (W2K) workstation as a domain user, with no
corresponding local user defined.  When I use Cygwin, my home directory is /
and I have all the privileges in the world (I'm in the Administrators group
for the domain), but all my file permissions and settings have my user ID on
them (crontab, mailbox, etc).

Is there a clear explanation somewhere about how users are treated under
Cygwin?

Thanks,
Gal




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