Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/05/06:39:52
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Thorpe
> Sent: 05 October 2004 11:24
> After installing a new machine with cygwin, it displayed the message:
>
> Your groupname is currently "mkgroup_l_d". This indicates
> that not all users and groups are listed in /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
> This message will only be displayed once.
>
> Unfortunately, though, "man mkgroup" or "man mkpasswd" do not
> work, they're are no man pages for these utilities.
WFM:
--------------------<snip!>--------------------
dk AT mace /artimi> man mkgroup | head -10
MKGROUP(1) CYGWIN MKGROUP(1)
NAME
mkgroup - Prints /etc/group file to stdout
SYNOPSIS
mkgroup [OPTION]... [domain]...
dk AT mace /artimi> man mkpasswd | head -10
MKPASSWD(1) CYGWIN MKPASSWD(1)
NAME
mkpasswd - Prints /etc/passwd file to stdout
SYNOPSIS
mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]...
--------------------<snip!>--------------------
Re-run setup; looking at the packages in your cygcheck output, you have hardly
anything at all installed, and in particular you need the cygwin-doc package to
get man pages etc.
> (I could just use the Unix version from the net, but are
> there any cygwin specifics? I expect there are)
Yep. They're entirely devoted to the purpose of creating a cygwin passwd file
from your windows SAM. Not a lot of use on *nixen that don't have SAMs!
cheers,
DaveK
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