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Re: cygwin:groupadd & useradd


On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:05:14PM -0000, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> On any of the NT based windows versions (2000 or XP) all user management is
> handled by windows, so you can use the net command to add groups or users
> from the command line, and you can then use mkpasswd and mkgroup to update
> the cygwin passwd and group files.
> wouldnt be too hard to knock up a shell script to emulate the unix utils I
> guess.

Yup, just use the NT CLI tools already available:

net user
net group
net localgroup

Corinna

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