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 Message-ID: <011501c2f249$a643a2a0$ab474e51@ellixia> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Martin" References: <191690-220033124164617979@M2W096.mail2web.com> <00b601c2f23f$0f38b030$ab474e51@ellixia> Subject: Re: cygwin running problem with mysql Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:09:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 > Thanks Elfyn > Apparently passwd file requires the SID > how do I obtain the SID which corresponds with mysql username or groupname > Sorry for the bother! If you just added the entried manually remove them and run this... mkpasswd -l |grep mysql (change mysql to the username you used) Will give you the SID of the user. Use the same SID in both /etc/passwd and /etc/group . Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/