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? 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, 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? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- 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/