File Owner, Group and Permissions for Win2000

[tim.conway at philips.com]

First, set this environmental variable in Win2k
set CYGWIN=ntea
Do it as a system variable.  It will let cygwin use the windows 
permissions, rather than going by extension and #!.

Second, copy in all relevant users to your /etc/passwd in cygwin.
tconway at USB-FLATUSWIN ~
$ cat /etc/passwd
Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-1454471165-1383384898-854245398-500:/home/Administr
ator:/bin/sh
Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-1454471165-1383384898-854245398-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh
hiram::1001:513:Tim 
Conway,S-1-5-21-1454471165-1383384898-854245398-1001:/home/hiram
:/bin/sh
tconway::1000:513:Tim 
Conway,S-1-5-21-1454471165-1383384898-854245398-1000:/home/tco
nway:/bin/sh

tconway at USB-FLATUSWIN ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 USB-FLATUSWIN 1.1.7(0.31/3/2) 2000-12-25 12:39 i586 unknown

tconway at USB-FLATUSWIN ~
$

Third, create local users for each user.  I don't have time to set up a 
sim, but try some experimenting.  Remember, it can't use a username that 
that doesn't exist, and NT doesn't let you assign to unknown numeric user 
IDs.  This should then work.  I don't have time to set up a sim, but you 
get the idea.

It's potentially a lot of work.  Anybody know of a way to script user 
creation in Windoze?

Tim Conway
tim.conway at philips.com
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"Roger Hales" <hales at q-net.net.au>
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03/30/2002 08:41 AM

 
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Hi,
 
I need to mirror some Linux directories on a Win2000 box but the owner, 
group  and permissions are lost.  I realize Win2000 does not use the same 
system but thought there may be some way around it with cygwin.  Is it 
possible to mimick /etc/passwd to preserve ownership etc?  Is there a 
better solution?
 
Roger