Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is installed or a newer version is installed. In our environment we wish /etc/passwd to represent all users in the domain. Thus upgrading Cygwin causes mkpass -l and causes things to break. > 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. I'm not saying that if one wants /etc/passwd updated one sure run Cygwin's setup.exe. What I'm saying is that Cygwin's setup.exe should not break the /etc/passwd in place already. My experiences says that setup currently breaks things. -- 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/
