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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040430104141.0303fd40@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:48:39 -0400 To: "Estey, Debora J" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: mkpasswd -p option now adds username In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:42 AM 4/30/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > > I have just down loaded the latest cygwin (1.5.9-1). > I have a script to add users to the password file, the first time they >bring up cygwin. > The script is using the -p option of the mkpasswd to add their home to the >passwd file. This > did work fine but, in the latest cygwin, the users id is added to the end >of the path that was specified. Why did this change? > Our users home directory does not end with their user id. > Assuming you don't find a reason to recall this message again before you get this, I suggest you read: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html If you read through your message keeping in mind that people on this list don't know anything about your system configuration or the details of your script, I think it will become obvious to you that there is very little content in what you've sent so far that's worth commenting on. Since it's the script that's telling 'mkpasswd' (via the -p flag) what the user's home directory should be, that's apparently where the problem lies. Or at least, that's the extent to which it makes sense to comment. So, I point you back to the URL above. A reconstruction of this posting with the pertinent information would be more helpful, assuming you don't find the answer yourself in the process. -- 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/