I love Cygwin, I hate the commandline (cmd.exe) of Windows, so I always have one or more Cygwin terminals open (no need to use putty, yay!) But I ran into a snatch today: i tried to change my username for my cygwin installation. Last time around it was easy: opening an editor and changing the first field in the /etc/passwd file.
This time around it wasn’t as easy as that, I had not /etc/passwd file!
It seems Cygwin changed somewhere in the last couple of years. But no problem, just run mkpasswd > /etc/passwd before the nano /etc/passwd so you have a file to edit.
On Linux you can use D exec -it and autocompletion cycles through all the possible options. On Mac OS X it doesn’t work out of the box. To make this happen the changes are very easy, you need to find a Bash completion file, thankfully this is featured in the docker-compose repository on Github. You…
Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. I’m dutch, so this time I’m going to react on a local news item (translation by Google). ‘Hacking critical infrastructure is still possible on a large scale’ was in the news a couple of days ago here in the Netherlands….
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Thanks! Looked all over only being told to edit the /etc/passwd file but never how to populate it first.
Thanks! After much searching, this is what I needed!
That’s a wellt-hought-out answer to a challenging question