Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/06/05/21:12:27
Mister Fred Ma wrote:
> Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all
> users on Windows XP. The administrator account is local to the
> machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user
> account. When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator, things
> are fine. When I launch it as nonadministrator, I get the message
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that
> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
>
> Here is what I did to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>
> As administrator, I did
>
> mkpasswd -l >| /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l >| /etc/group
>
> As nonadministrator, I then did
>
> mkpasswd -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/passwd"
> mkgroup -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/group"
>
> As an indication of proper functionality, I noted that I can
> successfully log in using
>
> ssh AdminAccount AT localhost
> ssh nonAdminAccount AT localhost
>
> Is there anything further I can do to avoid the warning message
> at the start of this posting? As a possible clue, I noticed that
> when I log onto Windows as nonAdministrator and start cygwin bash,
> my home diretory ~ is
>
> /c/Documents and Settings/NonAdminAccount
>
> Here, c:\ is mounted as /c. When I ssh into
> nonAdminAccount AT localhost, however, ~ becomes /home/NonAdminAccount,
> which is c:\cygwin\home\NonAdminAccount.
'ssh' uses the information in your '/etc/passwd' file to determine your
home directory. You can use the '-h' flag to mkpasswd to set this as
you desire, if the default is not what you want.
> Fred
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> cygcheck -cvs output, as queried from NonAdminAccount
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