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Re: cannot display man page for /bin/passwd


On Aug  5 13:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> > From: Corinna Vinschen
> > No, the Cygwin passwd tool has no man page.  The documentation is only in
> > the User's Guide:
> > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd
> 
> But then, how to explain the following?
> 
> $ man passwd | head
> PASSWD(1)                           CYGWIN                           PASSWD(1)
> 
> 
> 
> NAME
>         - Change USER's password or password attributes.
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        passwd [OPTION] [USER]
> 
> $

I don't have that, but a package search educated me that a passwd.1
man page is part of the cygwin-doc package.

In the next OpenSSL release I will apply the same patch as the Linux
maintainer, which is, rename the passwd.1 to sslpasswd.1.  That
should help.


Corinna

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