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From: "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: password file format
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:55:44 -0600 
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Hello-
I have been looking on google.com for the format of the cygwin /etc/passwd
file and i have had little luck finding out what the fields mean. Can anyone
point me to some docs or just tell me so i know what they are..  thanks!


username::                                                       :home dir
:shell

henninb::1002:513:,S-1-5-21-1425032920-764422119-1210191635-1002:/home/henni
nb:/usr/bin/bash




Brian

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