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Re: Creating a new user account in cygwin
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Creating a new user account in cygwin
- From: Greg Matheson <lang at ms dot chinmin dot edu dot tw>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:40:53 +0800
- References: <209E67A4BA29D511A25B006097B6F6880797CD@mse.harvard.edu>
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Peter Allen wrote:
> I've checked all the info online, and can't figure
> out how to be a different user.
I think you have to do things like change to the user you want to
be under W2K, then do mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and then log off
and back on again. Or is the order wrong here?
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