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Subject:	How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:45:30 -0700
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After installing Cygwin 1.5.25 and bringing up RXVT, I got a message
I've seen in the past, saying 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd" ...'.
It advises me to run "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" to fill in records in
/etc/group and /etc/passwd.

If I run "mkpasswd -l" it completes quickly, but doesn't include my
record.  I run "mkpasswd -d", which seems to be implied as the correct
thing to do, but it doesn't run very quickly.  In fact, I've never
waited long enough for it to complete.  I work for a very large company,
if that's going to try to list all the login records in the entire
company.

I tried doing "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" and then "mkpasswd -d -u
<mylogin> >> /etc/passwd".  That appeared to take care of the
/etc/passwd file for just my login (the only one I care about), but I'm
not sure of a similar approach for "mkgroup".  I tried using "mkgroup -d
-g <groupname>", but I'm not sure what group name to use.

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