Larry W. Virden wrote: > Okay, I tried to use mkpasswd as Mark suggested. Here's what I see now: > > $ grep lwv27 /etc/passwd > $ grep lwv2 /etc/passwd > lwv27:unused:14338:13710:Virden, Larry > W.,U-CAS\lwv27,S-1-5-21-15812936-299453970-766854361-4338:/home/lwv27:/bin/bash
I'm hoping the first one of those was from before the mkpasswd and the second one after, because otherwise something is very wrong if it can find "lwv2" but not "lwv27" ... > $ ls /home/lwv27 > ls: cannot access /home/lwv27: No such file or directory > $ ls /home > Olentangy rzt27 The home dir won't just appear when you update mkpasswd; you have to start a new shell, when the /etc/profile startup script notices your home dir setting doesn't exist it'll kick of the creation process for you. For the full explanation, see: http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
