Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:47:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: waxmop AT sarcastic-horse DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Install battle over, how to set up user? In-Reply-To: <62211.199.169.240.132.1062004921.squirrel@svr1.turboweb.net> Message-ID: References: <49794 DOT 199 DOT 169 DOT 240 DOT 132 DOT 1061993308 DOT squirrel AT svr1 DOT turboweb DOT net> <62211 DOT 199 DOT 169 DOT 240 DOT 132 DOT 1062004921 DOT squirrel AT svr1 DOT turboweb DOT net> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ok. Your cygcheck output says that you're a domain user, and that domain groups are not part of /etc/group: C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec) UID: 38685(d1wmw01) GID: 28109(mkgroup_l_d) ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is what's cauing the message you saw. Now, as Pierre said in , this is purely aesthetic and shouldn't affect the operation of Cygwin in any way. If the message annoys you, you can run "mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group" (make a backup of your current /etc/group, just in case). Be prepared that this command might take a long time in large domains. Otherwise, just ignore this message. Perhaps we should make separate messages for "mk{passwd,group}" and "mkgroup_l_d"... Igor On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 waxmop AT sarcastic-horse DOT com wrote: > Ok, I ran cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out, and I attached the > cygcheck.out file to this email. > > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 waxmop AT sarcastic-horse DOT com wrote: > > > >> Hi - > >> > >> I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of > >> packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list. Thanks > >> a > >> lot to all of you. > >> > >> So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen > >> above the bash prompt: > >> > >> 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) > >> > >> What should I do here? Is there such a thing as a 'root' account and > >> user > >> accounts? > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > > > > Please read , particularly the bit about > > attaching (as in 'uncompressed text *attachment*') the output of "cygcheck > > -svr". > > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/