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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:07:06 +0200
From:	Angelo Graziosi <angelo DOT graziosi AT alice DOT it>
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Subject:	Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The major change in this new release is the new method to read account
> (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly,
> without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to
> generate Unix-like uid and gid.

Does it mean that the users with /etc/{passwd,group} files have to 
rename them [*] before its installation TO TEST the new functionality?

Thanks,
  Angelo.

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E.g. : "mv /etc/{passwd, group} /etc/{passwd-save, group-save}"

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