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On 3/25/2014 10:54 AM, Leo Lagos wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> Yes, that seems to be the problem. My /etc/passwd is full of users of
> my company's domain, all of them (including me) with home such as
> //fileserver/public/<user>
>
> I don't need to have all my company in this file, since it's only for me.
>
> any quick way or re-creating this file? I do remember a mkpasswd or
> similar command..???

Yes, mkpasswd will allow you to populate your '/etc/passwd' file.
mkgroup will do the same for your '/etc/group' file.  Check out the
man page and/or the Cygwin User's Guide for more details.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd>
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup>

If you would prefer to work only with a local user, use the -l or -L
flags for these commands.  Otherwise, use the -d or -D flags.  For the
domain at least, you probably want to use the -c flag.  You will probably
also want to use the -p flag to specify your home directory (since it
points to a network path for your domain).


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Larry

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