[KLUG Members] adding a user for a temporary time

[Adam Williams]

>I'm using cygwin on a Win98 box at work.  The only user it has and 
>will allow is Milwood@Milwood.  I am looking to rsync to my Linux box 
>at home, but Milwood is not a user at my home box, and I was not 
>able to rsync between users (ie Milwood@Milwood /cygdrive/f rsync
>--rsh=ssh -rv ./images jon@*.*.*.*:/home/shared/work).  What I would 
>like to do, if I can't rsync between users, is to temporarily add Milwood
>as a user on the Linux box at home, test this rsync with cygwin, remove 
>Milwood if it works, then move forward with my plans for offstite backup 
>proposal to the business owner.

I'm not sure what your question is.  If you mean can you temorarily add a 
user, then yes.  POSIX Shadow enables an account to have an expiration 
date - man shadow and edit /etc/shadow

If your using LDAP then an application like Directory Administrator will 
let you just select an account and add an expiration date,  which is 
stored in the shadowExpire attribute as the number of days from Epoch (Jan 
1, 19700