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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Absence of mkgroup and mkpasswd man pages
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:39:27 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Thorpe
> Sent: 05 October 2004 11:24

> After installing a new machine with cygwin, it displayed the message:
> 
>     Your groupname is currently "mkgroup_l_d".  This indicates
>     that not all users and groups are listed in /etc/passwd and
>     /etc/group files.
>     See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>     mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd
>     mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
>     This message will only be displayed once.
> 
> Unfortunately, though, "man mkgroup" or "man mkpasswd" do not 
> work, they're are no man pages for these utilities.

WFM:

--------------------<snip!>--------------------
dk AT mace /artimi> man mkgroup | head -10
MKGROUP(1)                          CYGWIN                          MKGROUP(1)



NAME
       mkgroup - Prints /etc/group file to stdout

SYNOPSIS
       mkgroup [OPTION]... [domain]...

dk AT mace /artimi> man mkpasswd | head -10
MKPASSWD(1)                         CYGWIN                         MKPASSWD(1)



NAME
       mkpasswd - Prints /etc/passwd file to stdout

SYNOPSIS
       mkpasswd [OPTION]... [domain]...
--------------------<snip!>--------------------

  Re-run setup; looking at the packages in your cygcheck output, you have hardly
anything at all installed, and in particular you need the cygwin-doc package to
get man pages etc.

> (I could just use the Unix version from the net, but are 
> there any cygwin specifics?  I expect there are)

  Yep.  They're entirely devoted to the purpose of creating a cygwin passwd file
from your windows SAM.  Not a lot of use on *nixen that don't have SAMs!


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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