Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:11:57 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Brian J. Ackermann" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Strange new behavior... In-Reply-To: <3E414303.7040207@gmx.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Because even a complete uninstall won't remove user-created files (such as /etc/passwd), and a reinstall won't recreate them if they are already present. Igor On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote: > Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution) > > Thanks a bunch... > > I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete > uninstall, and consequent reinstall? > > Brian > > >>Vince says: > >> > >>sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with > >>mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old > >>mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd > >>and if you are in a domain > >>mkpasswd -d -u "your username" >> /etc/passwd -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/