Adding new users

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 15 03:58:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:00:48AM -0500, Rick Roberts wrote:
> I have installed the 1.1.8 version of cygwin. How do I add new accounts to
> it? So many programs want to see a root login account, I have added a root
> account to my Win2k users, but I can't find an adduser script/program to
> setup the root account with.

There isn't one. You'll have to use the native NT mechanisms/tools
or write a Cygwin version by yourself. After adding user(s) you can
add them to /etc/passwd by using the output of mkpasswd.

Corinna

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