This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: Suggestion for setup
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:22:31 +1100
- Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com]
> 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.
Hmm. Well if one of /etc/group and /etc/passwd is missing, can we assume
the other is valid? AFAICT we should either
a) only replace missing files, or
b) replace both if one is missing, but make a backup of the existing
one.
Rob
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/