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Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:21:45 +0200
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> The -u flag to mkpasswd (and -g flag to mkgroup) are your 
> friends.  See
> the User's Guide.
> 
> The thing is that if you're the only user in your domain using the
> machine, you can simply run "mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd" 
> (or "mkpasswd
> -l -d -u YOURUSERNAME > /etc/passwd").

I did the variation with "-l -c" to recreate /etc/passwd, because "-d" 
would hang the shell. I also recreated /etc/group without all the domain
stuff.

Actually you are right, I am the only user of this machine.

> > Incidentally, a group named "mkpasswd" does not exist. Do 
> you think I
> > should do a chgrp to all directories below / which now have group
> > mkpasswd? What group would be suitable? Maybe Administrators?
> 
> Just bring your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files up-to-date.  See
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids>.

There is one sentence on this page which might be a hint to the problem
in question:

  "if the login group of the current user isn't in /etc/group, it will 
   be named 'mkgroup'"

Now after recreation of group and passwd, I have:

~ $ id
uid=121833(fischron) gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d)
~ $ grep fischron /etc/passwd
fischron:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:121833:10513:fischron,U-EU\fischron,S-1-5-
21-2052111302-842925246-682003330-111833:/cygdrive/h:/bin/bash
~ $ grep 10513 /etc/group
mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-2052111302-842925246-682003330-513:10513:

so I have now group mkgroup_l_d (I guess this should suggest "local
domain"?),
and not "mkgroup". Is this better?

> I think your main problem wasn't with permissions, but with 
> postinstall
> scripts not running properly.  See if running them fixes the problem.

Yes, I will, and keep the results posted.


Ronald

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