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 Message-ID: <41E4EDEE.2060909@coware.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:29:18 +0100 From: Harald Dunkel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mkpasswd -ld: The user name could not be found. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | And there was no additional "on line X" text in the error output? I haven't seen such a line. In the meantime I have found the broken entry (just by looking sharp at the lists): There was one user with a different UID in smbpasswd than in Unix /etc/passwd. After removing this line mkpasswd -d did not complain anymore. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB5O3uUTlbRTxpHjcRAu33AJ0adJ8Qk9bmItWsWwtDgf6qC1m1zQCfQDpH RUD4tFqV4+TWNTiTEMtdLdE= =C9VW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/