cannot display man page for /bin/passwd

Nellis, Kenneth Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com
Tue Aug 5 13:43:00 GMT 2014


> 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]

$

--Ken Nellis


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