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Ripping my hair out over adding a user
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- Subject: Ripping my hair out over adding a user
- From: "Carpenter, Shawn" <scarpe at sandia dot gov>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:26:59 -0600
Corinna -
I have been struggling for a couple of days (on and off) trying to add a
user or even change a password for any account. I am running Windows 2000,
and am using cygwin 1.3.2. I have tried using mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd,
manually editing the passwd file, waving chicken bones and doing a little
dance, etc. I also have KDE and sshd running. All I would like to do is
figure out what Cygwin thinks my password is for any of the accounts. I
have also tried using "crypt" and inserting the crypted password in
/etc/passwd. Every time I add a new user to /etc/passwd, and try to change
that new users password, Cygwin repeatedly comes back with "user xxxx
unknown." I just want to have a valid account in which to scp or ssh with.
What is going on here? I am also using CYGWIN=ntsec. What should I do? I
love Cygwin, but I am completely frustrated trying to get this to work. Why
is it so difficult to add a user account? I have plowed through the message
archives, and nothing seems to solve my problem. Don't other users
experience the same problem? argh... Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!!!!
Shawn Carpenter
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