Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Wed Mar 26 09:17:00 GMT 2003


Arthur,

At 18:04 2003-03-25, Arthur I Schwarz wrote:

>How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit
>of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that
>they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system files. Is
>there any way to recover the original other than deleting Cygwin and
>starting afresh? (I did try a reinstall with no applications without
>success.)

% man mkpasswd
% mkpasswd {options-as-needed} >/etc/passwd

% man mkgroup
% mkgroup {options-as-needed} >/etc/group



>...
>
>art


Randall Schulz 


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