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Re: How to add user under Cygwin


On 7/20/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:23:31PM -0400, Etienne Mbuyi wrote:
> >$ net user AyamJ password /add /yes
> >$ net localgroup <an_local_group> AyamJ /add
> >$ mkpassd -l -u AyamJ >> /etc/passwd
> 
> Does this work on Windows 9x, too?  It seems like some kind of script or
> program which packaged these commands into a "useradd" or "adduser" would
> be pretty valuable for cygwin.

AFAIK, Windows 9x did not ship with the "net" command. I think you
could download the "net" command in some form for Windows 98, but I
don't know how close it is to the WinNT/Win2000/WinXP version.

> 
> Anyone interested in researching this?
> 
> cgf
> 
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