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Date: | Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:05:50 +1000 |
From: | Wes Barris <wesb AT wesbarris DOT com> |
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Subject: | How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group |
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I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working. The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands don't seem to produce files that work. I'm sure that I'm missing some fundamental knowledge about this but I don't know what. I've read the mkpasswd man page, the FAQ and searched for posts but have found nothing that helps me. Here is a simple case. My home computer runs XP. I want my /cygwin home directory to be the W drive (/cygdrive/w). After installing cygwin and changing the home path in the /etc/passwd file to /cygdrive/w, a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks as the owner and group fields like this: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files accordingly so that my directory listing looks like this: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 wes admin 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects What is the correct procedure for getting this set up correctly? -- Wes Barris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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