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Re: Should password file entries show as machine+user

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:07:50 +0200
Subject: Re: Should password file entries show as machine+user
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On May 15 00:47, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
> We have a new desktop PC with Windows 7 Professional installed.Â Corporate IT had to set it up with a domain to allow access to the corporate intranet.Â We have installed cygwin 64-bit:
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 <machine> 2.0.2(0.287/5/3) 2015-05-08 17:00 x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> On initial access, there was no passwd file so it was created by:Â mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd

You don't need a passwd file.  Please read the extensive documentation
at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html


HTH,
Corinna

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