delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/11/30/04:14:54

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
X-YMail-OSG: 9pCxQ18VM1mk88YO9HaaZ6MK6ds7gM6Hc_h5hMld.T0D6MHJpLV2xxf4EOD4P2qcnwqDcN1UhauPr1Zm_PUqMPnmW8gRqLm2W2LE.4GZ_AOzKu50EOvBaFWq6KE-
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:14:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject: Re: Problem with mkgroup
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <474F5351.1000805@cygwin.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <433613.74805.qm@web25015.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/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

--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"  ha scritto:

> Erik Weibust wrote:
> > I am having problems with a new cygwin install on
> windows vista business.
> > 
> > The first time I log in I get an error message
> about my group being
> > mkgroup. The error message states to run mkpasswd
> and mkgroup with the -d
> > flag for domain users. I get a very large passwd
> file when running this. Am
> > I safe to delete the majority of the users from
> the passwd file, mainly just
> > leaving my own login? I'm guessing there are some
> "admin" type users that
> > probably need to still be there. Is there a list
> of the users to keep,
> > because my file if very, very long?
> 
> 
> You can trim out whatever you like from the file but
> you should make sure
> that you leave whatever groups your users are a part
> of.  There shouldn't
> be a great harm in leaving well enough alone though.
> 

I think a short list is 

mkpasswd -l
plus the user_id in the domain

mkgroup -l
plus 

Domain Users
HelpServicesGroup:
Domain Admins:
Domain Computers:
Domain Controllers:
Domain Guests:

Regards
Marco



      ___________________________________ 
L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019