Installing Cygwin on XP laptop part of a domain

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
>> From: Jay NYC
>>
>> Can someone who has experience installing Cygwin on a WinXP 
>> desktop part of a  Windows Domain let me know what to do? 
> 
> You need to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files using 
> mkpasswd and mkgroup.
> 
> The domain I am in has around 3000 groups and lots of users.
> Enumerating all the users takes a while.
> 
> All I need to do is (something like):
> 
> mkgroup > /etc/group
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkpasswd -d -u my_username >> /etc/passwd
> 
> The first mkpasswd adds the local accounts and the second 
> invocation adds my domain account.   mkpasswd --help for
> more details.
> 
> Then edit /etc/passwd and change your home directory a local
> path - perhaps /home/username.


There's a flag for 'mkpasswd' that let's you specify the home
directory you want directly.  Sorry, don't recall what it is
off-hand and don't have access to it to look right now.



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