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Re: cygwin on XP home edition (Please help i cant get further with this)
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Jul 15 14:11, Hennie wrote:
> > Is nobody using XP home edition in combination with cygwin?
>
> Not voluntarily, no.
>
> > Then throw it out of the group users.
> >
> > you can do this in a windows cmd box with.
> >
> > net localgroup users USERNAME /DEL
> >
> > And after that do a mkpassword and mkgroup in cygwin
> >
> > mkuser -l > /etc/passwd
> > mkgroup -u -l > /etc/group
> >
> > login (via ssh preferably) as that user and give the command
> >
> > $groups
> >
> > Is it according to cygwin still in the group users ?
> > If so is this a behaviour of XP home edition?
> > Does this allso happen in XP professional?
>
> It also happens on XP Professional. I have no idea why yet. There's
> nothing special with the users group in Cygwin. The group list is taken
> from the returned user/group lists of the Win32 API. I'm wondering if
> Windows adds the Users group to the list if the user is not in any local
> group. I'll investigate this further at one point.
>
> Corinna
>
Ah well for wat XP home edition goes on, i have put in that specific user whom
i threw out of the group users into another group i created
again from a windows command box.
i added a group called SshAllow
>net localgroup SshAllow /add
now there is a group called SshAllow
added that user to this group
>net localgroup SshAllow [USERNAME] /add
And after that do a mkpassword and mkgroup in cygwin
mkuser -l > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -u -l > /etc/group
login (via ssh preferably) as that user and give the command
$groups
Still this user is in the group users.
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