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: <1052749051.3ebfacfbf2d0a@webmail.imag.fr> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:17:31 +0200 From: Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Igor Pechtchanski Cc: sferriol , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252;q=1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 152.77.201.128 Surlignage Igor Pechtchanski : > On Mon, 12 May 2003, sferriol wrote: > > > hello > > is there a command to change the home directory of a user in /etc/passwd > > because ssh sees this file before $HOME and i have always a error. > > Use an editor to edit /etc/passwd (as has been suggested). Mind the line > endings (I think). > no my question is to do this automatically because when the admin has installed cygwin on a computer, it adds users and each users has to define the variable HOME, but if they use ssh, they have to chang /etc/passwd too. i want to create a install file which update automatically /etc/passwd, puts defaults files (bashrc, inputrc,...) i see that there is the mkpasswd command but it doesn't do what i want do you know when /etc/passwd is created??? sylvain ------------------------------------------------- envoyé via Webmail/IMAG ! -- 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/