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Re: same user and group
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:14:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: same user and group
- References: <964808.76469.qm@web94902.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 7 20:21, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am using cygwin on windows xp pro. can any body have idea how to create same user and group with same name like bin
Windows doesn't allow users and groups with the same name. Cygwin does
in a virtual kind of way. For instance, create a user "bin" and a group
"bin-grp". Let's assume they have the following SIDs:
S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1011 user "bin"
S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1012 group "bin-grp"
Create passwd and group entries:
$ mkpasswd -l -u bin >> /etc/passwd
$ grep '^bin:' /etc/passwd
bin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1011:513:U-YOUR_PC\bin,S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1011:/home/bin:/bin/bash
$ mkgroup -l -g bin-grp >> /etc/group
$ grep '^bin-grp:' /etc/group
bin-grp:S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1012:1012:
Then edit /etc/passwd so that the primary group for bin is 1012 and
edit /etc/group so that bin-grp is called bin:
$ grep '^bin:' /etc/passwd
bin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1011:1012:U-YOUR_PC\bin,S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1011:/home/bin:/bin/bash
$ grep '^bin-grp:' /etc/group
bin:S-1-5-21-9-8-7-1012:1012:
Corinna
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