Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030429234331.0080f8d0@mail.attbi.com> X-Sender: phumblet@mail.attbi.com (Unverified) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:43:31 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: sshd and other daemons Cc: davidtg-cygwin@justpickone.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" David T-G wrote: >% machine (probably the one who's logged in). You will also need to add a >How does one make a program run as a particular user? Hmmm... On Win9X, you can create as many users as you want in /etc/passwd, e.g. with "mkpasswd -u new_user >> /etc/passwd" or by direct editing. Passwords need to be added manually, as indicated by Igor. When logging from the network, you run as the user you specified, starting in his/her home directory (from /etc/passwd). When starting locally, you run as the default user (uid 500) if you have not logged in into Windows, or if you have logged in under a name that is not in /etc/passwd. Else you run under the Windows username and the matching uid from /etc/passwd. You can use "su" to switch users. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/