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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:05:45 -0500
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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To:	Ajay Simha <asimha AT cisco DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygstart, mutt or mailcap?
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Ajay Simha wrote:
> 

> [asimha AT asimha-w2k02 ~]$ mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd
> mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied. <========

Use mkpasswd -l -c 

Note that -c is a recent & still experimental flag. 
In the future it may go away and be implied by -l (for domain
users). Its goal is to avoid the kind of problems you have
had.

Pierre

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