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


see the mails from Patrick J. LoPresti today for these issues.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Raible [mailto:MRaible@RESORTQUEST.com]
> Sent: 20 August 2003 20:25
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
> 
> 
> Well, it executed w/o errors, but now I get:
> 
> Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> bash: [: too many arguments
> 
> ... on startup.
> 
> Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:06 PM
> To: 'Matt Raible'; 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
> 
> 
> 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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