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Subject:  Re: Cygwin 1.7 domains and home directories
Date:  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:42:54 -0500
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> Now, *sometimes* when I
> start cygwin (via the standard batch file) I get ~ to be my "c:\Documents
> and Settings\[user]\" and othertimes it all works and ~ is /home/morrijr
> which is mounted to "d:\Wrkfile".  I've not be able to workout when or
> why.
> 
> When it doesn't honor the path in my passwd file it also comes up with the
> 
> "Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that
> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users."
> 
> message.

John, thanks for reporting this.  I also have this problem in Cygwin 1.7, ever
since I installed it.  The problem does not occur in Cygwin 1.5.

> Note that the group file is *very* big (IMO) 6505 entries!  There's only
> local users and my domain account in my passwd file (16 entries).

I am also in a domain.  There are 20,300 entries in /etc/passwd, and 22,269 in
/etc/group.

> Can anyone suggest anything I can try either to fix or more reliably
> reproduce the problem?

Here's what I've been able to figure out about it:

The error happens the first time I open a Cygwin 1.7 console after each reboot.
On the 2nd and subsequent times after a reboot, bash starts without error and
finds my correct $HOME.  I can log out and log back in, and the next console
will open without error.  Reboot, start a console, and I get the error again.

Does that also happen to you?  A clue for sure, though I have no idea where it's
pointing.

Andrew.


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