Just to save some time, another quicker way to get your account's details using mkpasswd is to use the -u switch instead of applying grep on the output: The command-line would then be: mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkpasswd -d -u daniel >> /etc/passwd
Lionel * From: <dct-linuq at iquebec dot com> * To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com> * Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:15:56 GMT * Subject: Re: Unable to use X session under cygwin 1.3.11-3 on NT 4.0 sp. 6 To redefine users see the thread this month : -> xterm fails to start with "setuid failed: Permission denied" and the mkpasswd command. Basically what it does it to make a new password file with users and network information. Cygwin uses it for the login. Attention!!! Watch for big network, the file could end up very long. Here is what I did : mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkpasswd -d | grep "daniel" >> /etc/passwd (I knew my login name to be daniel) And voila, I am now daniel@mymachine and no longuer Administrateur@mymachine. And the best of it xterm now works (after some tweeking, read on). _________________________________________________________ Envoyez des messages musicaux sur le portable de vos amis http://mobile.lycos.fr/mobile/local/sms_musicaux/