Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/25/04:16:22
Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:
>
> ----Original Message----
> >From: david.balazic
> >Sent: 22 April 2005 16:12
> > Besides, now I reinstalled base-passwd and have a good /etc/passwd
>
> No, you don't. If all your files are listed as having group ownership
> "mkgroup_l_d", that means that the /etc/group file is bad. Since
> base-passwd creates that as well, it means /etc/passwd is probably no good
> either.
>
> Are you in a windows domain? The default setup only creates local machine
> accounts in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If you're logged in as a network
> user it won't know who you are. That could be the problem.
Yes, I am in a windows domain. (But my UID is correctly recognised :
the id command returns uid=11135(stein) gid=10545(mkgroup_l_d);
the group seems wrong thou)
...
> > Also note, that /etc/skel is empty.
>
> AYS? All the files in /etc/skel begin with a full stop. If you dont use
> the -a option to ls, you won't see them.
You missed my "I have years of unix experience" line ? ;-)
The only files in /etc/skel are "." and ".." .
You also said in another mail :
> You must have missed the message when you started the shell telling you to
> run mkpasswd and mkgroup. Until you do that, cygwin has no idea about
> different user ids and therefore doesn't know about home directories and
> startup scripts either.
Should I still do that ?
Or "Reinstall" "all" first ?
Also nothe the weird things reported by cygcheck. Here is an brief excerpt :
bash-2.05b$ mount
C:\Program Files\NX Client for Windows\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /mnt/NX/fonts
type user (textmode)
C:\Documents and Settings\stein\.nx\tmp on /tmp type user (textmode)
C:\Program Files\NX Client for Windows on /usr/NX type user (textmode)
...rest is normal...
I have the NX client for windows installed (before I installed cygwin).
It seems there is some interference ?
About the full cygcheck output :
I am posting at gmane.org and it does not seem to support attachments.
Subsribing would be also pointless, since every mail I send is refused due
to the "MS OutLook is too stupid to send plain text" problem.
Regards,
David
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