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Adding new user 'nobody' - PLEASE help!
- From: dhay at lexmark dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: dhay at lexmark dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:22:34 -0500
- Subject: Adding new user 'nobody' - PLEASE help!
Hi everyone. I have installed cygwin on NT, and am at the end of my rope trying
to add a new user called nobody!
I have added CYGWIN=ntsec, and have created a user under NT of nobody, in group
Users. I believe I have to add a line to the /etc/passwd file, but have tried
everything I can think of, and I still get the message chown: `nobody': invalid
user. I can, however, chown using one of the existing users in /etc/passwd no
problem. By the way, how did they get there?!
Would *really* appreciate some help here, as I have gone as far as I can!
Many thanks,
Dave
PS Please cc me into the reply!
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