Hello Rincewind, Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 10:11:44 AM, you wrote:
>> R> My login name in Win XP have a space in it wich is no good so I want to >> R> force CygWin to use another account that doesn't ahve that problem. >> >> [snip] >> >> Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README - it contains information on how to >> map WinNT/2000/XP accounts to entries in /etc/passwd. R> Thanks, but I checked that file, and although I didn't get it completely the R> suggested changes seems to be as my passwd file is as default more or less, R> I tried setting the U-user bit for the account I want to use but always get R> a "incorrect login" with or without it. 1. Assume I have a user called Pavel Tsekov on my XP 2. mkpasswd -l -u 'Pavel Tsekov' outputs this (on one line): Pavel Tsekov:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1009:513:Pavel Tsekov,U-MORDOR\Pavel Tsekov,S- 1-5-21-1161744426-645757453-568730901-1009:/home/Pavel Tsekov:/bin/bash 3. I want a shorter name to use in cygwin so I modify the line above to look like this: ptsekov:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1009:513:Pavel Tsekov,U-MORDOR\Pavel Tsekov,S- 1-5-21-1161744426-645757453-568730901-1009:/home/ptsekov:/bin/bash Now cygwin knows I want to be refered to as ptsekov but it has to consider the security settings for Pavel Tsekov in the NT account database. Isn't this what you want to achieve ? -- 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/
