Have you tried to regenerate the groups (mkgroup -l > /etc/group). This might work...
Voyteck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Winston Gutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: Can't create home directory > Hi, > > I'm trying to install cygwin to test the openssh server. I have had it on my > machine before and removed it, and am trying to install it again. I believe > I have gone through all the correct steps for uninstallation (registry > entries, environment variables and the like), but now, whenever I install, I > get errors as soon as I try to execute bash, saying that Administrator does > not have permissions to create /home/Administrator. > > I have tried changing ownership to 544:544, opening everything to 777, > setting the directory open to Everyone in Windows, but nothing seems to > work. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? I have tried to search > the archives, but could not find any entries. > > Thanks in advance > > Winston Gutkowski -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
