X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <447E3552.8020107@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:31:14 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How come I'm still the mkgroup group? References: <20060531185647.27994.qmail@web55503.mail.re4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060531185647.27994.qmail@web55503.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Clifford Moravetz wrote: > I'm wondering why I'm still in the 'mkgroup' group even after running > the mkgroup and mkpasswd commands. I ran these commands like this: > > mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group > > but when I run the id command I'm still in the mkgroup. Here's the > output from my id command: > > uid=21522(Moravetz) gid=22162(mkgroup) > groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(Debugger > Users),28009(cc_users),10513(Domain > Users),18698(InternetAccess_A),28014(SB-CCUltiview),22162(mkgroup) > > It got wrapped in a few odd places because of Yahoo's rules about > word wrapping. I've attached the output of cygcheck as requested. Thank you. It looks like your primary group ID is 22162. It's possible that 'mkgroup' is having problems getting information for that group id from your domain. Do you see any errors when you run 'mkgroup'? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/