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RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.


Executing "mkgroup -ld" nor "mkgroup -l" did not help anything.  Oh well, it
only happens when I open Cygwin, so I guess I can live with it.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
Elfyn McBratney
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:11 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.


Matt Raible <matt_raible@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I couldn't find 
> the solution in the archives.
> 
> I've been using Cygwin for a few years now, and the install has always 
> worked great.  Today I started getting the following error when I 
> installed it (at my new job):
> 
> Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
>   This typically happens if you are a domain user
>   (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or
>    /etc/group for domain users)
> 
> In /etc/group, I have:
> 
> mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-3941461891-1737259440-******-513:10513:

This is an indication that you need to run `mkgroup -l` (or `-ld' if your a
domain user). If you really don't need ntsec (or ntea) support, then I
suppose you don't need to worry about this. It's there because this is the
cause of some common Cygwin problems.

> [...]
> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible)  GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 
> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible)  GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 544(Administrators)  547(Power Users)
> 545(Users)           10513(mkgroup_l_d)

-- Elfyn

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