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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:33:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question
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> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
> UID: 400(david)  GID: 401(mkpasswd)
> 401(mkpasswd)

It looks like the your /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group
files were not created correctly by the setup.exe
postinstall process. Can you describe the process you
used to install Cygwin?

Oh, and running 
mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
mkgroup > /etc/group

might solve your HOME problem.

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