On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:34:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >At 05:52 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>Actually I would prefer that over this extra check, changing the >>group name to "use mkpasswd". > >I had some hesitations too. For a while I considered changing the >user name itself, but that would cause side effects. >Changing the group name doesn't matter at all. It used to be set >to "unknown", which provides no useful information. > >I would like to provide unmistakable feedback, before the user >has a chance to write to the list and be told to run cygcheck.
I think that initial feedback is a *great* idea but if cygcheck can provide some kind of information that would allow diagnosing a problem, that would be useful, too. Maybe it could just dump selected fields from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. cgf
