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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:11:12 +0100
From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
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Matt Raible <matt_raible AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I couldn't find the
> solution in the archives.
> 
> I've been using Cygwin for a few years now, and the install has always worked
> great.  Today I started getting the following error when I installed it (at my
> new job):
> 
> Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
>   This typically happens if you are a domain user
>   (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or
>    /etc/group for domain users)
> 
> In /etc/group, I have:
> 
> mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-3941461891-1737259440-******-513:10513:

This is an indication that you need to run `mkgroup -l` (or `-ld' if your a
domain user). If you really don't need ntsec (or ntea) support, then I suppose
you don't need to worry about this. It's there because this is the cause of
some common Cygwin problems.

> [...] 
> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible)  GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 
> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible)  GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 544(Administrators)  547(Power Users)
> 545(Users)           10513(mkgroup_l_d)

-- Elfyn

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