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Re: Tool to manage Windows accounts?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Tool to manage Windows accounts?
- References: <loom.20050606T185456-48@post.gmane.org> <42A48758.1040300@etr-usa.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Warren Young wrote:
> Jimmy James wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to manage the actual Windows user accounts at all through
> > cygwin?
>
> Perl can do this through the Win32 CPAN module. (Included with Perl, I
> believe.) But take it up on a more appropriate list; it isn't Cygwin.
Passwords can be changed using the 'passwd' Cygwin tool (just like in
Linux), as long as the user for whom the password is being changed is in
/etc/passwd.
Changing group membership and adding users isn't currently possible with
Cygwin tools, AFAIK. One could use the "net" Windows command for this
("net user").
Igor
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