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Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup
- To: Andreas Helfenberger <he at metrohm dot ch>
- Subject: Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:43:51 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <384666B6.CDE54732@metrohm.ch>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Andreas Helfenberger wrote:
>In your:
>--------
>
>Cygwin Documentation
>
> Cygwin User's Guide
>
>The installation of password and group will not work:
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Under Windows NT, if you want to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group (i.e.
>so ls -l replaces the UID with a name) just do this:
>
> /$ cd /etc
> /etc$ mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
> /etc$ mkgroup > /etc/group
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>I think you should insert the -l Option like
>
>/etc$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> /etc$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
>I do not know wheter or not this bug is already reported.
Why is this a bug?
cgf
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