"stupid newbie questions" - not

tjoen@dds.nl tjoen@dds.nl
Sat Aug 29 09:40:00 GMT 1998


> From:          "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold@coyote.rain.org>
> Date:          Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:17:45 -0700

> I kinda took that to mean win95 doesn't have the user/group info, 
> etc, to make an /etc dir worthless for win95.  What is /etc good 
> for under win95?

There are programs calling function getuid()
These work only if there is an /etc/passwd
mkpasswd.exe didn't work so I made it with notepad.
Now there is an answer to whoami
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