On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:00 PM, Erik Soderquist <eriksoderqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> I do not know where /etc/passwd and /etc/group came from on >>> this system, unless pre-1.7.34 is still less than a year ago >> >> Google sez: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-11/msg00019.html >> >> Relevant: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html > > So over a year now... yeah, no idea, why I had /etc/group at all…
You can still re-generate them with the mkpasswd/mkgroup commands, but that’s strongly discouraged. These files are not removed if present, even when upgrading pre-1.7.34 to 2.0+, so if you copied over a prior install’s /etc contents, they’ll still be there many setup.exe passes later. Perhaps the mtime on those files will give you a clue. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
