On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >>>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >>>-d" in such a case would be useful. >> >>This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT, >>/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd. >>Ditto /etc/group. > >Not necessary! In fact in most shops that run Windows domains users are >being added and deleted all the time! If you think about allowing the >ability of an arbitrarily new user to be able to telnet into your box >for whatever reason then they will not be able to if /etc/passwd's >remain static.
The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install. Even if it is not the case that this only happens the first time you install cygwin, using setup.exe to upgrade /etc/passwd is really not the right way to deal with this. Just run mkpasswd and mkgroup. There is no reason to involve setup.exe. cgf -- 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/