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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:20:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote:

> > So, except for the pdksh postinstall (which is a genuine bug),
> > everything else seems to be related to the weird permissions on your
> > machine.
>
> Could it be related to the strange fact that my numeric user id
> suddenly has changed from 400 to 121833?

I'm not sure.

> One more note regarding the recreation of /etc/passwd: The inclusion of
> -d -u USERNAME now has the somewhat annoying side effect, that for
> example my homedirectory is now not printed as /cygdrive/h like before,
> but in network drive notation:
>
> $ pwd
> //MUCSDN03/FischRon/.ssh
>
> Of course, I can still access it as /cygdrive/h, so it is not a
> functional problem. Still I wonder whether it would be so bad to go back
> to the old version of /etc/passwd, where my homedirectory is listed as
> /cygdrive/h and everything else being equal....

You can *edit* /etc/passwd, you know, and change your home directory
(username, userid, etc) to whatever you want.  Just be careful not to
change the SID field.
	Igor
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