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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:46:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <20020306192554.GA17204@redhat.com>
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I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first
time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user
around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup blindly
ran
mkpasswd -d.

--Rick
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> >>>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd
> >>>-d" in such a case would be useful. 
> >>
> >>This is just an issue for first time installations, right?  AFAICT,
> >>/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd.
> >>Ditto /etc/group.
> >
> >Not necessary! In fact in most shops that run Windows domains users are
> >being added and deleted all the time! If you think about allowing the 
> >ability of an arbitrarily new user to be able to telnet into your box 
> >for whatever reason then they will not be able to if /etc/passwd's 
> >remain static.
> 
> The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
> not be run if the corresponding files already exist.  I was asking if
> people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
> 
> Even if it is not the case that this only happens the first time you
> install cygwin, using setup.exe to upgrade /etc/passwd is really not the
> right way to deal with this.  Just run mkpasswd and mkgroup.  There is
> no reason to involve setup.exe.
> 
> cgf
> 
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