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Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:22:31 +1100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com] 


> I'm not saying that if one wants /etc/passwd updated one sure run 
> Cygwin's setup.exe. What I'm saying is that Cygwin's setup.exe should 
> not break the /etc/passwd in place already. My experiences says that 
> setup currently breaks things.

Hmm. Well if one of /etc/group and /etc/passwd is missing, can we assume
the other is valid? AFAICT we should either 
a) only replace missing files, or
b) replace both if one is missing, but make a backup of the existing
one.

Rob

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