Re: Unable to use X session under cygwin 1.3.11-3 on NT 4.0 sp. 6

[Lionel Ains <lains at caramail dot com>]

Just to save some time, another quicker way to get your
account's details using mkpasswd is to use the -u switch
instead of applying grep on the output:
The command-line would then be:
mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkpasswd -d -u daniel >> /etc/passwd

Lionel

* From: <dct-linuq at iquebec dot com>
* To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
* Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:15:56 GMT
* Subject: Re: Unable to use X session under cygwin 1.3.11-3
on NT 4.0 sp. 6

To redefine users see the thread this month :
-> xterm fails to start with "setuid failed:
Permission denied"
and the mkpasswd command. Basically what it does it
to make a new password file with users and network
information. Cygwin uses it for the login. 
Attention!!! Watch for big network, the file could
end up very long. Here is what I did :
mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkpasswd -d | grep "daniel" >> /etc/passwd
(I knew my login name to be daniel)
And voila, I am now daniel@mymachine and no longuer
Administrateur@mymachine. And the best of it xterm
now works (after some tweeking, read on).
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