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RE: How to add user under Cygwin
- From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM at learnquick dot com>
- To: "'Raz'" <coolmandan at gmail dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26:36 -0500
- Subject: RE: How to add user under 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.
The Net (add/view/etc) command is on the 9x
platforms but there are some minor differences
with the NT version(s) even in the main commands,
and I am unsure about the subcommands that deal
with accounts which likely would be missing since
9x had no accounts database.
Herb Martin, MCT, MCSD, MCSE, MVP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Raz
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:18 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: 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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