X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4683D31D.8020309@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:26:21 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with Cygwin installation for domain user References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 aviad rozenhek wrote: > Hi, > I've been using cygwin for several years, and I absolutely love it. thanks! > I have installed cygwin on XP machine at work, and ran into > setup/configuration problem, Basically its the Your group name is > currently "mkpasswd" issue. > > I tried the following things: > >>> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd >>> mkgroup -l > /etc/group > > doen't change anything, I still get the message, so I tried >>> $ mkpasswd.exe -l -d > /etc/passwd > > this failed with "mkpasswd (264): [5] Access is denied." (see attached > 1.txt and 1.strace.txt) > > so I also tried >>> $ mkpasswd.exe -l -c > /etc/passwd >>> $ mkgroup.exe -l -c > /etc/group > > but that doesn't work becaue on next login I get: > > Your group name is currently "mkgroup_l_d". This indicates that not > all domain users and groups are listed in the /etc/passwd and > /etc/group files. > See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group > > This message is only displayed once (unless you recreate /etc/group) > and can be safely ignored. > > and my home directory is set to /cygdrive/h (?) > > I would appreciate any help, > especially soothing would be to find that my home directory is at > c:\cygwin\homes\aviad > > the same as it would have been had I been a local rather than a domain user Your home directory is coming from the Windows domain information. You can change it to be whatever you want either by specifying the 'p' flag to 'mkpasswd' or by editing the '/etc/passwd' file afterwards. As for the problem with the groups, it sounds like a problem with your PDC. Is it up/accessible? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/