Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: yes Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:46:57 -0800 Organization: Salira Optical Networks Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3C868E51.4000207@DeFaria.com> References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E4B7@IIS000> <20020306175108.GA15442@redhat.com> <3C8668A2.4060103@DeFaria.com> <20020306192554.GA17204@redhat.com> <019b01c1c547$5439d270$d700a8c0@mchasecompaq> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015451649 6415 206.184.204.2 (6 Mar 2002 21:54:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 21:54:09 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Michael A Chase wrote: > I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it > only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist. When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our /etc/passwd is a symlink, whether this function considers a symlink == file doesn't exist? -- 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/