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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:00:53 -0700
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Absence of mkgroup and mkpasswd man pages
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:24:26AM -0700, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> 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.

Install the cygwin-doc package.

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