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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth DOT Nellis AT xerox DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cannot display man page for /bin/passwd
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:43:02 +0000
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> From: Corinna Vinschen
> No, the Cygwin passwd tool has no man page.  The documentation is only in
> the User's Guide:
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd

But then, how to explain the following?

$ man passwd | head
PASSWD(1)                           CYGWIN                           PASSWD(1)



NAME
        - Change USER's password or password attributes.

SYNOPSIS
       passwd [OPTION] [USER]

$

--Ken Nellis

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