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If you do the old standard,

mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l > /etc/group

will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those 
directories now first?

The location of the cygwin directory will be the same. Is there a list 
of the windows registry entries for cygwin? I will not want to re-import 
the entire regisrry, so it would be nice to be able to make up a little 
batch file that would just insert the entries related to cygwin.

LMH



Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 7/12/2012 4:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install
>>> and then
>>> plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things
>>> like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group'
>>> that
>>> will need updating. A reinstall of Cygwin avoids some of these little
>>> clean-up tasks that come from just copying over a previous installation.
>>
>> Would one be able to re-execute the post install scripts to manage it?
>
> Well, in the case of the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files, not
> entirely.
> 000-cygwin-post-install.sh will create these files but only if they don't
> exist already.
>

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