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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 08:29:28 +0100
From: Andreas Helfenberger <he AT metrohm DOT ch>
Organization: Metrohm-AG CH 9100 Herisau Switzerland
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Subject: Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup
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Chris Faylor schrieb:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Andreas Helfenberger wrote:
> >In your:
> >--------
> >
> >Cygwin Documentation
> >
> >                               Cygwin User's Guide
> >
> >The installation of  password and group will not work:
> >-----------------------------------------------------
> >Under Windows NT, if you want to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group (i.e.
> >so ls -l replaces the UID with a name) just do this:
> >
> > /$ cd /etc
> > /etc$ mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
> > /etc$ mkgroup > /etc/group
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >
> >I think you should insert the -l Option like
> >
> >/etc$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> > /etc$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
> >
> >I do not know wheter or not this bug is already reported.
>
> Why is this a bug?
>
> cgf

Thanks for your answer

To me it seems to be a bug in your doc "Cygwin User's Guide".
On my NT, without the option "-l" the "passwd" file is empty.
With the "-l" option it takes the actual settings from the
NT registry. (As you describe in your doc)


Kind regards

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