proposed mkpasswd change

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 11 19:58:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:25:07PM -0500, BB wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this.
> What is the correct group to propose patches to Cygwin?
> 
You're right but...

> As I stated in an earlier post, in order to run cron on Win9x, a SYSTEM user
> with RID 18 user needs to be defined in /etc/passwd.  mkpasswd was recently
> modified to add the admin user.  Would is make sense to also add SYSTEM user

mkpasswd creates a SYSTEM and a administrators entry already for a long
time:

$ mkpasswd -l
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
[...]

Corinna

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