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 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:34:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Warren Young cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tool to manage Windows accounts? In-Reply-To: <42A48758.1040300@etr-usa.com> Message-ID: References: <42A48758.1040300@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Warren Young wrote: > Jimmy James wrote: > > > > Is it possible to manage the actual Windows user accounts at all through > > cygwin? > > Perl can do this through the Win32 CPAN module. (Included with Perl, I > believe.) But take it up on a more appropriate list; it isn't Cygwin. Passwords can be changed using the 'passwd' Cygwin tool (just like in Linux), as long as the user for whom the password is being changed is in /etc/passwd. Changing group membership and adding users isn't currently possible with Cygwin tools, AFAIK. One could use the "net" Windows command for this ("net user"). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/