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Re: Suggestion for setup
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
> not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if
> people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is installed or a newer
version is installed. In our environment we wish /etc/passwd to
represent all users in the domain. Thus upgrading Cygwin causes mkpass
-l and causes things to break.
> Even if it is not the case that this only happens the first time you
> install cygwin, using setup.exe to upgrade /etc/passwd is really not the
> right way to deal with this. Just run mkpasswd and mkgroup. There is
> no reason to involve setup.exe.
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.
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