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Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:41:20 -0700
Subject:	Re: Absence of mkgroup and mkpasswd man pages
From:	"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe AT realworldtech DOT com>
Reply-To:	rthorpe AT realworldtech DOT com
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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.
 
Thanks, that was quite easy.

(BTW, personally, I think that if cygwin is going to give that message the first time it starts, then cygwin-doc's should be a default package, or the man pages should tag along with mkgroup/mkpasswd)




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