Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/27/10:19:53
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 waxmop AT sarcastic-horse DOT com wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of
> packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list. Thanks a
> lot to all of you.
>
> So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen
> above the bash prompt:
>
> Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
> This typically happens if you are a domain user
> (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or
> /etc/group for domain users)
>
> What should I do here? Is there such a thing as a 'root' account and user
> accounts?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Please read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the bit about
attaching (as in 'uncompressed text *attachment*') the output of "cygcheck
-svr".
Igor
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