Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/02/03/05:17:24
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Zbynek Vrtiska, Certicon a.s.
> Sent: 03 February 2005 09:09
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Zbynek Vrtiska, Certicon a.s.
> >>Sent: 02 February 2005 12:33
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I would like to use command pwck. I found out, that in RedHat
> >>it should
> >>be in a package named shadow-utils. But I canīt find it
> >>anywhere in cygwin.
> >
> > Try the search feature at
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/packages/
> >
> I didn't find it, does it mean it's not included in cygwin?
>
> Zbynek
Well, what it means is that there's no official, maintained port of it as a
cygwin package. In that case, you really have three options left:
1) Google for it, and hope you can find an unofficial port to cygwin that
someone has done.
2) Get the source code and try to port it yourself - an awful lot of well
written open source will just build under cygwin OOTB.
3) Find an alternative with similar functionality
[ Ok, four options:
4) Do without! ]
I suspect option 3) is going to be the answer in your case, I'm afraid, because
if I'm guessing rightly from the name 'shadow-utils', this is something for
manipulating shadowed passwords, which isn't the system by which either cygwin
or windows works.
cheers,
DaveK
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