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* What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?
@ 2010-03-05 15:06 scotch123
  2010-03-05 15:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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From: scotch123 @ 2010-03-05 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

My apologies for the newbie question.

I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin
/etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user
name and the home directory and bash shell:

corinna:unused:11001:11125:U-BAR\corinna,S-1-5-21-2913048732-1697188782-3448811101-1001:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh

I can't seem to find what the three things in the middle are. 

I want to write up a how-to for a co-worker that explains what each segment
is before explaining how to change a user's home directory path from the
Unix default to the Windows/Cygwin notation that goes to their webroot
folder so they can use SFTP.

If someone could explain, or direct me to an explanation, I'd be grateful.

Thanks,
Scotch
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* Re: What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?
  2010-03-05 15:06 What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean? scotch123
@ 2010-03-05 15:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) @ 2010-03-05 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-xfree

On 3/5/2010 10:06 AM, scotch123 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My apologies for the newbie question.
>
> I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin
> /etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user
> name and the home directory and bash shell:
>
> corinna:unused:11001:11125:U-BAR\corinna,S-1-5-21-2913048732-1697188782-3448811101-1001:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
>
> I can't seem to find what the three things in the middle are.
>
> I want to write up a how-to for a co-worker that explains what each segment
> is before explaining how to change a user's home directory path from the
> Unix default to the Windows/Cygwin notation that goes to their webroot
> folder so they can use SFTP.
>
> If someone could explain, or direct me to an explanation, I'd be grateful.

Wrong list.  This is not a Cygwin-X question.  Please send requests about
Cygwin to the main list.  Only questions, issues, or comments regarding
Cygwin-X should go to this list.

To answer your question, the main information for this you can get from
Linux/UNIX sources: <http://linux.die.net/man/5/passwd>.

The Cygwin-specific parts you can get from the Users Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files>

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