RE: bad installation ?

["Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>]

As maintainer of the package which outputs that message I'm
always glad to hear of ways to improve it.  Can you suggest
a better message?

J.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Johnson 
> 
> Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think
> it tells "all Banibrata needs to know".
> 
> The big unanswered question that is probably still
> bothering Banibrata is, "how on earth did the group
> get to be 'mkpasswd' in the first place?" I very much
> doubt that Banibrata set it to that. And I have never
> seen that in Cygwin or Cygwin/X before. So it sounds
> like some drastic error condition did this. And if it
> did, who knows what _else_ is messed up in the
> installation? THAT is what Banitrata needs to know; it
> was NOT contained in the message.
> 
> Another thing Banibrata needs to know that was not
> explained is which of the FOUR methods of rebuilding
> the password file is appropriate for this condition.
> 
> Now it may very well be that the readers of the list
> cannot answer this for Banibrata, since it varies from
> case to case, and Banibrata simply has to knuckle-down
> and read the man pages. But even if this is the case,
> some guidelines for how to intepret the man pages
> would be the right, helpful response.
> 
> To that end, I propose to Banibrata the following
> questions:
> 
> 1 - do you need remote access?
> 2 - what version of Windows are you running?
> 3 - do you have access to the Domain Controller?
> 4 - where do you have your home directory
> (directories)?
> 
> The answers to these questions will tell you whether
> or not you need the '-d' option, etc.
> 
> --- Phil Betts <Phil.Betts@heis.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:23 PM, Banibrata
> > Dutta wrote:
> > > Could anybody explain the following behaviour or
> > Cygwin and "startx"
> > > in Cygwin...
> > > 
> > > <capture>
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> >  <snip>
> > 
> > > Could someone please help ?
> > 
> > Did you actually *read* what you posted?
> > 
> > It tells you all you need to know.


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