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Re: adding a user in cygwin
On Feb 5 18:06, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello, Tony.
>
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Tony wrote:
> > We have setup cygwin on an 2000 server and have the need to add a user to
> > the box. We have added the user to the local admins and want to update
> > the /etc/passwd file to reflect this. Do you have to do a recreation of
> > the /etc/passwd file or is there a "useradd" command?
>
> Does "mkpasswd -l |grep ^newuser: >>/etc/passwd" work for you? Or you
> can recreate it if you haven't customized it.
mkpasswd -u <username>
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