mkpasswd, mkgroup

[Chris Faylor]

On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:31:50PM +0100, Andreas Helfenberger wrote:
>In your:
>--------
>
>Cygwin Documentation
>
>                               Cygwin User's Guide
>
>The installation of  password and group will not work:
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Under Windows NT, if you want to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group (i.e.
>so ls -l replaces the UID with a name) just do this:
>
> /$ cd /etc
> /etc$ mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
> /etc$ mkgroup > /etc/group
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>I think you should insert the -l Option like
>
>/etc$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> /etc$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
>I do not know wheter or not this bug is already reported.

Why is this a bug?

cgf

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