how to create a new user

how to create a new user

[Alex BATKO]

Where in the documentation on the cygwin site is there information
about how to create a new user ?

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Re: how to create a new user

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
> 
> Where in the documentation on the cygwin site is there information
> about how to create a new user ?

Nowhere.  It's in the Windows documentation.

Corinna

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Re: how to create a new user

[Alex BATKO]

OK.  I have a particular user who already has a windows account,
but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy)
to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin).

What I did so far is `mkpasswd -d | grep billy >> /etc/passwd`.

Then billy tries to do `ssh host_name -l billy`, but billy gets
permission denied.

So then i thought that billy might need a new password, so i ran
`passwd billy`, and gave him a new password.  Still no luck.

This is why I was asking about documentation about creating a new
user.  Windows documentation is not enough;  this is cygwin related.

Do you have any idea about what I should try to let this user log in ?

Thanks for your time.


+-------------------
| On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:35:06PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
| > 
| > Where in the documentation on the cygwin site is there information
| > about how to create a new user ?
| 
| Nowhere.  It's in the Windows documentation.
| 
| Corinna
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Re: how to create a new user

[Ryan T. Sammartino]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
> 
> OK.  I have a particular user who already has a windows account,
> but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy)
> to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin).
> 


This is what I do:


#! /bin/bash

mkpasswd -d -u $1 | sed -e 's/:\([A-Za-z0-9_-]\+\),\([A-Za-z0-9_-]\+\),U-/:\2\1,U-/g' >> /etc/passwd



Save that as "adduser.sh", then you can just "adduser.sh billy".

The sed script is to turn real names from Lastname, Firstname
to Firstname Lastname, since the extra comma causes issues.  If that
isn't an issue for you, then remove the sed script.



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Re: how to create a new user

[Alex BATKO]

+-------------------
| On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:57:48PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
| > 
| > OK.  I have a particular user who already has a windows account,
| > but now i'd like to be able to allow that user (username: billy)
| > to ssh into the domain controller (to be able to use cygwin).
| > 
| 
| 
| This is what I do:
| 
| 
| #! /bin/bash
| 
| mkpasswd -d -u $1 | sed -e 's/:\([A-Za-z0-9_-]\+\),\([A-Za-z0-9_-]\+\),U-/:\2\1,U-/g' >> /etc/passwd
| 
| 
| 
| Save that as "adduser.sh", then you can just "adduser.sh billy".
| 
| The sed script is to turn real names from Lastname, Firstname
| to Firstname Lastname, since the extra comma causes issues.  If that
| isn't an issue for you, then remove the sed script.
+-------------------

Thanks for replying...

Fortunately there is no comma in my case, so i don't really need to
do any substitutions.

I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag,
because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option.

We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but
I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh
attempt).  You don't have this problem ?  Can you think of anything
that might be responsible for this ?

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RE: how to create a new user

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag,
> because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option.
>

You have an old mkpasswd.  "-u,--username username  only return information for
the specified user" is relatively new.

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Re: how to create a new user

[Ryan T. Sammartino]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
> I'm not sure if you made a mistake or not, in typing the '-u' flag,
> because my mkpasswd doesn't support that option.

I have the latest greatest Cygwin possible (don't have
version numbers in front of me at the moment), but mkpasswd -u <user>
means "make a password entry just for the given user"

> 
> We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but
> I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh
> attempt).  You don't have this problem ?  Can you think of anything
> that might be responsible for this ?

/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-***.README solved all of my problems when I
actually read and followed the direction given therein.

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Re: how to create a new user

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 01:56 AM 2/13/2002, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0500, Alex BATKO wrote:
> > We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but
> > I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh
> > attempt).  You don't have this problem ?  Can you think of anything
> > that might be responsible for this ?
>
>/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-***.README solved all of my problems when I
>actually read and followed the direction given therein.



Isn't it nice to have such good Cygwin documentation? (asked 
rhetorically) :-)



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Re: how to create a new user

[Alex BATKO]

+-------------------
| I have the latest greatest Cygwin possible (don't have
| version numbers in front of me at the moment), but mkpasswd -u <user>
| means "make a password entry just for the given user"
| 
OK, thanks for pointing that out.  Although I think that other then the
amount of time required to fetch a given user password entry, there's no
difference between `mkpasswd -u username` and `mkpasswd -d | grep username`.
(With exception of the comma).



| > We are doing pretty much the same things (in creating a user), but
| > I get permission denied after entering the password (during an ssh
| > attempt).  You don't have this problem ?  Can you think of anything
| > that might be responsible for this ?
| 
| /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-***.README solved all of my problems when I
| actually read and followed the direction given therein.
| 
I think that sshd is setup correctly - I am able to ssh into the windows
machine (running cygwin/sshd) with another account.  The problem is that
billy can't log in using password authentication.

PasswordAuthentication is set to 'yes'.

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