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Subject: RE: mkpasswd -l gives wrong local user
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:11:58 -0500
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Thanks for the help.
I set up both passwd and group files using -d option.

Now when I "ls -l" my cygwin home directory I find these
files owned by "dickra".  I believe this is "Ryan Dick"
an employee here.  Perhaps NTUSER.DAT is causing the
"mkpasswd -l" to create a "Ryan" user.

  d---------+  2 dickra   Domain Users       0 Aug  7  2006 .Trash-root
  ----------+  1 dickra   Domain Users 5505024 Apr  6 12:14 NTUSER.DAT

I fixed the .Trash-root ownership problem but hesitant to approach
NTUSER.DAT problem.  What is a recommended way to fix this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:47 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: mkpasswd -l gives wrong local user
> 
> Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> > I had a PC with full cygwin install.  Then my company
> > replaced it with a more powerful PC and in the process
> > copied C:\Cygwin over to the new PC.
> > 
> > When I run "mkpasswd -l" instead of giving user 'harryr'
> > I get another user:
> 
> FWIW, the only local user I see that likely wasn't just 
> created by some
> installation program is "Ryan".
> 
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