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Re: Creating users and groups
- From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at cygwin dot com>
- To: Eric Benson <eric_a_benson at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:02:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: Creating users and groups
- References: <3EF7A1B9.1090909@yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote:
> I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and
> group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user
> and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those
> don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this
> situation on Cygwin? I don't need setuid bits on files, but I want to be
> able to chmod and chgrp files and su to the userid so that these
> processes belong to the right user. I confess I don't really know much
> about Windows. My programs pretend to live in a wholly Unix world. I
> would hate to have to use a manual process in Windows to create this
> user. Isn't there some way of doing this from a shell script?
You can use the `net' command on NT/200[03]/XP to create windows accounts and
then `mkpasswd' and/or `mkgroup'.
Elfyn
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