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Subject:	Re: Suggestion for setup
Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:46:57 -0800
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Michael A Chase wrote:

> I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it
> only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist.

When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does 
indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our /etc/passwd is a symlink, 
whether this function considers a symlink == file doesn't exist?




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