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On 7/12/2012 5:04 PM, LMH wrote:
> If you do the old standard,
>
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
> will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those
> directories now first?

For these files, your above recipe will work.

> The location of the cygwin directory will be the same. Is there a list of
> the windows registry entries for cygwin? I will not want to re-import the
> entire regisrry, so it would be nice to be able to make up a little batch
> file that would just insert the entries related to cygwin.

As the FAQ that I pointed to said, there's nothing in the registry Cygwin
needs to work.


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