Subject: Re: cygwin-1.3.16-1
From: <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:08:06 -0000

> 1.3.16-1 contains changes to help users with ntsec and less than perfect
> passwd/group, but it now seems to have unexpected side effect for Win98.
> Cygwin does not find your entry in passwd. Is there one starting with your
> username?
> Would you mind sending the output of "id" and your passwd file?

Thank you. Here is startup location and the information you requested in
cygwin-1.3.15-2:

~> id
uid=500(fergus) gid=544(bonhard) groups=544(bonhard)
~> cat /etc/passwd
fergus::500:544::/home/fergus:/bin/bash
~> cat /etc/group
bonhard::544:
~>

... and here is the same thing in cygwin-1.3.16-1 (note default prompt as
~/.bash_profile has not been picked up; also starting location / not ~. The
files /etc/passwd and/etc/group are unaltered. I have added output of
mkpasswd if that helps):

fergus@LEPER /
$ id
uid=500(fergus) gid=401(unknown) groups=401(unknown)
fergus@LEPER /
$ cat /etc/passwd
fergus::500:544::/home/fergus:/bin/bash
fergus@LEPER /
$ cat /etc/group
bonhard::544:
fergus@LEPER /
$ mkpasswd
unknown::500:544::/home/unknown:/bin/bash

Thanks again.

Fergus

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