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Re: proposed mkpasswd change
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:05:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: proposed mkpasswd change
- References: <b77192$gp1$1@main.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:25:07PM -0500, BB wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the correct group for this.
> What is the correct group to propose patches to Cygwin?
>
You're right but...
> As I stated in an earlier post, in order to run cron on Win9x, a SYSTEM user
> with RID 18 user needs to be defined in /etc/passwd. mkpasswd was recently
> modified to add the admin user. Would is make sense to also add SYSTEM user
mkpasswd creates a SYSTEM and a administrators entry already for a long
time:
$ mkpasswd -l
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
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Corinna
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