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Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:53:01PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > There is!  The passwd tool in the current snapshots already have the
> > option -e to switch expiry off.  If you have another look into the
> > script, you'll see that I check the version number of passwd, so I
> > know if it already has that functionality or not ;-)
> 
> Ahh, totally missed that.  Would it be best to release the new
> passwd tool before this script is included?

I'm not planning to do this in a rush.  I'm trying to get this done
step by step.  Your script changes are actually the first step which
will hit our users.  I think we will release Cygwin 1.5.6 before I
release the create-root script.  Then we can switch over the services
as we see fit.

Corinna


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