Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/22/12:07:07
I'm not an expert, but starting from version 1.3.13, cygwin handles passwd
and group files slightly differently. For example, before upgrade ls showed
all files I created owned by pavel:Administrators, but after upgrade it
became Administrators:none. Probably setup could handle this situation, by
updating passwd/group files in post-install script.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Tue, October 22, 2002 5:56 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:49:16AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >My guess is this problem is related to the ntsec stuff as are many
> >recent posts. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but to get cygwin to
> >work properly these days I had to do two things:
> >
> >1. manually modify the /etc/passwd file mkpasswd -du
> mywindowslogin >>
> >/etc/passwd Where mywindowslogin is the name of the account that you
> >log into windows with.
> >
> >2. set CYGWIN=nontsec
>
> There is no reason to do both. If you are not going to use ntsec then
> CYGWIN=nontsec should be equivalent to 1.3.12.
>
> I'm amazed at the number of people who have incorrect
> /etc/passwd files.
>
> >There are many posts of gcc does not work, patch does not work, bz2
> >does not work, XXX does not work.... I suspect many of
> these problems
> >are related to not being able to read/write files.
> >
> >Is there some way that this can be fixed? If you run setup on a new
> >computer right now (or at least two days ago), gcc will not work and
> >all files you create
> >will be owned by a non-existent user. Perhaps there
> should be a warning or a
> >FAQ entry, but I would think that the default running of setup should
> >create a cygwin that works.
>
> I haven't seen anyone say that running setup on a new
> computer doesn't work.
> It seems to be existing implementations that need tweaking.
> I don't know
> why.
>
> cgf
>
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