> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:46 PM
> To: Andrew DeFaria; cygwin
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 13:46
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
>
>
> > Michael A Chase wrote:
> >
> > > I recently messed with the function that does that, so I
> can confirm
> that it
> > > only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files
> don't exist.
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>
> static void
> make_passwd_group ()
> {
> String fname = cygpath ("/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.bat");
> io_stream::mkpath_p (PATH_TO_FILE, fname);
>
> if (uexists ("/etc/passwd") && uexists ("/etc/group"))
> return;
> . . .
So /etc/passwd AND /etc/group are re-created if /etc/passwd OR /etc/group
does not exist ;-(
Would be better to condition creation of /etc/passwd to it not being
present, and the like for /etc/group.
Bernard
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