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Re: Migrating users from NT to Cygwin?
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Craig Emery" <craig dot emery at 3glab dot com>,"Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:58:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: Migrating users from NT to Cygwin?
- References: <3D88F49E.8090801@3glab.com>
Craig Emery wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> after installing cygwin all the NT users that existed before running setup.exe
have been migrated into my /etc/passwd file and I
> can run bash --login as them.
>
> I wish for an NT user that I've since created to have the same ability.
>
> How do I migrate this newly created NT user over to cygwin / /etc/passwd?
$ mkpasswd --help
Usage: mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]
This program prints a /etc/passwd file to stdout
Options:
-l,--local print local user accounts
-d,--domain print domain accounts (from current domain
if no domain specified)
-o,--id-offset offset change the default offset (10000) added to uids
in domain accounts.
-g,--local-groups print local group information too
if no domain specified
-m,--no-mount don't use mount points for home dir
-s,--no-sids don't print SIDs in GCOS field
(this affects ntsec)
-p,--path-to-home path use specified path instead of user account home dir
-u,--username username only return information for the specified user
-h,--help displays this message
-v,--version version information and exit
One of `-l', `-d' or `-g' must be given on NT/W2K.
Most common usage is: $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
Max.
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