Modification to setup2.sgml

Modification to setup2.sgml

[Eric M. Monsler]

Hi all,

Last week I posted a diff to setup2.sgml, based upon discussions in the
archive of using "mkpasswd -d" in addition to "mkpasswd -l" in setting
up the proper UID, etc., in the /etc/passwd file.

I had done a straight diff >file, rather than diff -u > file.  Here is
the result of:
diff -u setup2.sgml EMM_setup2.sgml >setup2.sgml.diff

Eric M. Monsler
--- setup2.sgml	Mon Nov 20 11:44:05 2000
+++ EMM_setup2.sgml	Wed Feb  7 09:39:37 2001
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@
 <para> Under Windows NT, if you want to create 
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> 
 (i.e. so that <command>whoami</command> works and 
-<command>ls -l</command> replaces the UID with a name) just
-do this:
+<command>ls -l</command> replaces the UID with a name) based on the accounts local to the machine, just do this:
 </para>
 
 <screen>
@@ -93,7 +92,30 @@
 <prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkgroup -l > /etc/group</userinput>
 </screen>
 
-<para> Future changes to your NT registry will NOT be reflected in
+<para>If you are logging in based on an NT network domain, and want to
+also create entries in <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
+<filename>/etc/group</filename> based on all the accounts in the
+domain, then after creating local entries do this:
+</para>
+
+<screen>
+<prompt>/$</prompt> <userinput>cd /etc</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkgroup -d >> /etc/group</userinput>
+</screen>
+
+<para>Alternatively, to add only your account to the passwd file,
+assuming your NT name is "my_ntusername", instead of the above
+<command>mkpasswd</command> you should do:
+</para>
+ 
+<screen>
+<prompt>/$</prompt> <userinput>cd /etc</userinput>
+<prompt>/etc$</prompt> <userinput>mkpasswd -d | grep my_ntusername >> /etc/passwd</userinput>
+</screen>
+
+
+<para> Future changes to your NT registry or network domain will NOT be reflected in
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or <filename>/etc/group </filename> after
 this so you may want to regenerate these files periodically.  Under Windows
 9x, you can create and edit these files with a text editor.  </para>

Re: Modification to setup2.sgml

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:14:54AM -0800, Eric M. Monsler wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Last week I posted a diff to setup2.sgml, based upon discussions in the
>archive of using "mkpasswd -d" in addition to "mkpasswd -l" in setting
>up the proper UID, etc., in the /etc/passwd file.
>
>I had done a straight diff >file, rather than diff -u > file.  Here is
>the result of:
>diff -u setup2.sgml EMM_setup2.sgml >setup2.sgml.diff

Doh.  I carefully checked to see if these changes were in setup2.sgml
and somehow missed the fact that they were already there.  I'd asked DJ
to check them in.

I'm sorry for making you go to the extra work of producing YA diff.

Thanks for your contribution.

cgf

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