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Creating users and groups
- From: Eric Benson <eric_a_benson at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:56:25 -0700
- Subject: Creating users and groups
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?
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