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Re: Slip of the pen in the description of mkpasswd. Corinna?


On Nov  7 13:05, Houder wrote:
> 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)

Indeed.  I fixed that in the docs.  Thanks!


Corinna

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