RE: /etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

["Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>]

OK, so I think the script as stands is...

case "`id -ng`" in
mkpasswd )
  echo "Your group is currently \"mkpasswd\".  This indicates that"
  echo "the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt."
  echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run"
  echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
  echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
  echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"  
  echo "domain users."
  ;;

mkgroup )
  echo "Your group is currently \"mkgroup \".  This indicates that"  
  echo "the /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt."
  echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run"
  echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
  echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
  echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"  
  echo "domain users."
  ;;

mkgroup_l_d )
  echo "Your group name is currently \"mkpasswd_l_d\". This indicates that
not all"
  echo "domain users and groups are listed in the "/etc/passwd and
/etc/group files."
  echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run"
  echo "mkpasswd -l -d [-u yourUser] >> /etc/passwd"
  echo "mkgroup  -l -d > /etc/group"
  echo
  echo "This message is only displayed once and can be safely ignored."

  # only display the above once
  cp -p /etc/group /etc/group.mkgroup_l_d \
  && chmod a+w /etc/group \
  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/group \
  && chmod --reference=group.mkgroup_l_d /etc/group \
  && chown --reference=group.mkgroup_l_d /etc/group
  rm -f group.mkgroup_l_d
  ;;
esac

It doesn't matter _overly_ if this doesn't work in all cases,
I'd like to aim for an engineers 100% (99.9999999%), but I'll settle
for it working for at least most typical installations.  Its not the
advanced users I'm so bothered about (since they will already have
a /etc/profile installed), its improving the OOTB experience for those
who are just 'playing' with cygwin.

Thanks for the help guys; anything else? :)

J.


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