From: "Eric M. Monsler" <emonsler@beamreachnetworks.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Modification to setup2.sgml
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A8D6E1E.6212FFE5@beamreachnetworks.com> (raw)
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>
next reply other threads:[~2001-02-16 10:13 UTC|newest]
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2001-02-16 10:13 Eric M. Monsler [this message]
2001-02-16 13:03 ` Christopher Faylor
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