At 02:13 PM 2/5/2002, Ling F. Zhang wrote: >I just installed cygwin on XP...so I am quite a >newbie, to unix as a whole, actually. > >I did mkpass -l > passwd and mkgroup...okay, I know >how I can select individual user and group to use by >using the grep command...however, can I use a group / >user that's NOT on my WINXP machine? say, root / root?
No. Cygwin relies on Windows for security information (that statement sound almost laughable when I re-read it! ;-) ) >If I remember correctly, in UNIX root has speical GID >and UID?? can I just simply add lines that correspond >to root / root and expect it to work in cygwin? also, No. >when it import group / user from winxp, it addes a >whole bunch of wierd number with "-" can any one >explain to me what does each :: field represent? Can I >safely manipulate those number? Is there any unix >convention I can follow? Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. As a matter of fact, it would be good for you to review all the available documentation at www.cygwin.com, the email archives, and documentation under /usr/doc for any newbie questions. Many of these have probably been asked before. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
