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Re: sshd and other daemons
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: davidtg-cygwin at justpickone dot org
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:43:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: sshd and other daemons
David T-G wrote:
>% machine (probably the one who's logged in). You will also need to add a
>How does one make a program run as a particular user? Hmmm...
On Win9X, you can create as many users as you want in /etc/passwd,
e.g. with "mkpasswd -u new_user >> /etc/passwd" or by direct editing.
Passwords need to be added manually, as indicated by Igor.
When logging from the network, you run as the user you specified,
starting in his/her home directory (from /etc/passwd).
When starting locally, you run as the default user (uid 500)
if you have not logged in into Windows, or if you have logged in
under a name that is not in /etc/passwd. Else you run under the
Windows username and the matching uid from /etc/passwd.
You can use "su" to switch users.
Pierre
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