Not sure if this has already been answered... so if it has - sorry. There was a bug in mkpasswd in win9x that has been corrected now, so try updating to newer packages and it should work correctly.
Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Vorst, Jan van der [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:51 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: No home directory on fresh setup > > > A fresh installation of the latest cygwin results in no home > directory. One enters in /usr/bin/<user>. > I editted passwd to point to it /home/<user> and created the > /home/<user> directory manually. This resulted in a correct login. > Then CVS however didn't work well anymore in that the > administration database was not updated in case of a modules checkin. > > I downloaded the previous cygwin version and made a fresh > installation of this one. It had none of the above problems. > After updating this one to the latest version (so no fresh > installation) the problems did not reappear. > > So it seems to me there is a problem with the fresh latest > installation procedure. > > The problem is reproducable on my machine. > I cleaned the registry before each fresh installation (setup). > > The following report <<Mattias Brändström - home directory > problems.url>> seems to be the same. > > included are: > 1. cygchecklatest: fresh installation of latest cygwin > 2. cygcheckprev: fresh installation of previous cygwin > 3. cygcheckprev2latest: previous to latest > > <<sygcheckprev>> <<cygcheckprev2latest>> <<cygchecklatest>> > regards, Jan van der Vorst > > **********Internet Email Confidentiality Footer********** > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this > message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this > message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such > person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. > In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly > notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately > if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for > messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other > information in this message that do not relate to the > official business of my firm shall be understood as neither > given nor endorsed by it. > -- 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/
