Subject: Re: setup snapshot?
From: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ronald Landheer-Cieslak" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:44:39 -0000

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> I've just run the Setup snapshot on a fresh NT/4 machine
> $ uname --all
> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 nt4-rlandheer 1.3.21(0.77/3/2) 2003-03-12 00:24 i686
> unknown unknown Cygwin
> During the post-install scripts, I got an error # 2453 from mkpasswd.

Yes, base-passwd 1.0 was broken, but the problem was masked because old
setup used to re-create passwd-grp.sh from internal data.

base-passwd 1.1 is now on the mirrors.

> The result is:
> $ id
> uid=400(RLandheer) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd)
> and
> $ echo $HOME
> /cygdrive/c/users/default
> $ cat passwd
> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrateurs:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> $ cat group
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
>
> running mkpasswd from the command-line reproduces the error when run
> with the -d option (but works nicely with -l or -g
>
> $ mkgroup -d
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> Cannot get PDC, code = 2453

You forgot to mention - are you in a domain?

Max.

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