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Slip of the pen in the description of mkpasswd. Corinna?
- From: "Houder" <houder at xs4all dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 13:05:44 +0100
- Subject: Slip of the pen in the description of mkpasswd. Corinna?
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Hi Corinna,
As result of Christian Franke's input (what should mkpasswd/mkgroup 'exactly' generate?), I reread
the description of mkpasswd at
https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ug/using-utils.html
It reads:
The mkpasswd program can be used to create a /etc/passwd file. Cygwin doesn't need this file, because
it reads user information from the Windows account databases, but you can add
an /etc/group file <==== should be /etc/passwd, I presume ...
for instance, if your machine is often (not uncommon!) disconnected from its domain controller.
(the line is obviously copied from the description of mkgroup, which preceeds that of mkpasswd)
Regards,
Henri
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