Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/06/14:26:25
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>>>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd
>>>-d" in such a case would be useful.
>>
>>This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT,
>>/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd.
>>Ditto /etc/group.
>
>Not necessary! In fact in most shops that run Windows domains users are
>being added and deleted all the time! If you think about allowing the
>ability of an arbitrarily new user to be able to telnet into your box
>for whatever reason then they will not be able to if /etc/passwd's
>remain static.
The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if
people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
Even if it is not the case that this only happens the first time you
install cygwin, using setup.exe to upgrade /etc/passwd is really not the
right way to deal with this. Just run mkpasswd and mkgroup. There is
no reason to involve setup.exe.
cgf
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