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Re: Strange new behavior...


Good to know,

Although I still find it curious that it had been working until last week sometime, when I updated...

Thanks much!!

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Oops, sorry, should have read your message more carefully...
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh simply does not create domain users. I'm
sure this fact is documented somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment.
Igor

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote:


Understandable, but in my desperation I removed the entire C:\cygwin
root directory, no to mention a number of regustry entries...

So, one might think I was thourough...

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:


Because even a complete uninstall won't remove user-created files (such as
/etc/passwd), and a reinstall won't recreate them if they are already
present.
Igor

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote:




Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution)

Thanks a bunch...

I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete
uninstall, and consequent reinstall?

Brian




Vince says:

sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with
mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
and if you are in a domain
mkpasswd -d -u "your username" >> /etc/passwd



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