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From: Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com>
Subject:  Re: Username hassles
Date:  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:13:20 +0100
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:

> On Jul 13 15:29, Paul Mead wrote:
>> Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> writes:
>> 
>> >
>> > Untested: /etc/passwd?
>> What should that do, I ran it but I'm none the wiser!
>
> You *ran* /etc/passwd?  It's not a script.  Maybe this helps:
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
OK, so I wasn't supposed to type /etc/passwd then... Hopefully I haven't
broken anything in the process. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out
before I do anything else.

Paul


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