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

[Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>]

try "mkgroup -ld > /etc/group"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Raible [mailto:MRaible@RESORTQUEST.com]
> Sent: 20 August 2003 19:59
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: 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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