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 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:12:03 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mkpasswd -ld: The user name could not be found. Message-ID: <20050111151203.GA678621@Worldnet> References: <41E3CEE5 DOT 2030805 AT coware DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E3CEE5.2030805@coware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > Currently I am trying to create a valid /etc/passwd > using 'mkpasswd -ld >/etc/passwd'. But it dies with > > The user name could not be found. > > Of course without telling me _which_ user it could > not find. Poor design :-(. Any idea how this can be > solved? Are you sure it died? Is /etc/passwd empty? Out of curiosity, does mkpasswd -lds also fail? (even if it doesn't, the passwd file is pretty useless because won't have the sids) Pierre -- 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/