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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 16:22:41 -0400
To: tom AT trodman DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: /etc/passwd in a NT Domain- sep copy foreach box or sym
  links to just 1
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At 03:47 PM 4/8/2002, tom AT trodman DOT com wrote:
>Just got inetd, telnet and ftp working (using a password file
>created with "mkpasswd -d").  
>
>It would be nice if one could have single centrally located
>passwd and group file so that each workstation could set up
>a symbolic link to these in it's /etc directory.
>
>I tried this- in general it works fine, but inetd seems to
>insist on a simple file, not a symbolic link.  Is this
>worth fixing; ie would you consider supporting the
>symbolic link in a future release?
>
>Thanks so much to everyone working on Cygwin, I really
>appreciate the tools and the environment!!


Patches which address an earnestly investigated problem are always welcome
and thoughtfully considered.



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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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