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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: pwck
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:17:07 -0000
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> -----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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