Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To:	"Chris Game" <cgame AT bigfoot DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]
Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:46:42 -0000
Message-ID:	<OIENKAGCMBEDKDHGANIKKELICJAA.john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
In-reply-to:	<asklc2$d8q$1@main.gmane.org>
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Importance:	Normal

> From: Chris Game
> 
> In an earlier post, John Morrison  wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > The way this is set has changed and *should* work ootb with a clean
> > installation.
> >
> > The easiest way (I believe) atm is to...
> >
> > $ cp /etc/group /etc/group.old
> > $ cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
> > $ /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done
> >
> > this should recreate /etc/group and /etc/passwd (check before
> > closing!)  Then close and restart cygwin.  You should now
> > be your domain user *not* your local Admin.
> >
> > Also note that /etc/profile has changed, the new version
> > is kept as /etc/profile.default and should not overwrite any
> > previous copy.
> >
> > The functionality has changed slightly.  It doesn't run
> > ~/.bashrc by default, as per specs it runs ~/.bash_profile
> > which should check and, if appropriate, run ~/.bashrc
> >
> > Feel free to change how this works - it is your system
> > afterall :)
> 
> Ah! Thanks for useful hints

Welcome.

> - now how do I get out of this 'None' group
> that I'm apparently in, and into 'Users' or even 'Administrators'?

Sorry, I don't know.  I'm in 'None' too.

J.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -