On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:15:17PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 11:56 AM 10/22/2002 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:49:16AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>>My guess is this problem is related to the ntsec stuff as are many >>>recent posts. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but to get cygwin to >>>work properly these days I had to do two things: >>> >>>1. manually modify the /etc/passwd file mkpasswd -du mywindowslogin >> >>>/etc/passwd Where mywindowslogin is the name of the account that you >>>log into windows with. >>> >>>2. set CYGWIN=nontsec >> >>There is no reason to do both. If you are not going to use ntsec then >>CYGWIN=nontsec should be equivalent to 1.3.12. > >That is not what I saw. After doing 1, most cygwin things worked, however, there >were .exe files installed on my disk that were no longer executable. These were >things installed outside of cygwin.
chmod a+x foo.exe >>I'm amazed at the number of people who have incorrect /etc/passwd files. > >I would say that many people using cygwin, do not even know that they >have a /etc/passwd as it is created automatically by setup. So, if the >setup program is not creating the correct thing, why would you be amazed if >there are many incorrect files around? I was working under the assumption that setup.exe created correct files since it uses mkpasswd and mkgroup to create files /etc/passwd and /etc/group. So, telling people to run the same thing that setup.exe runs as a method to fix the problem "amazes" me. I assume this has something to do with the -d switch to mkpasswd, which setup doesn't do. Apparently, I understand how this works and you don't. So, I'm amazed and you're not. >>I haven't seen anyone say that running setup on a new computer doesn't work. >>It seems to be existing implementations that need tweaking. I don't know >>why. > >That is not what we have seen. After removing the install, and re-installing, >I could not get it to work without the above two changes. Anyway, an update >should work as well. Perhaps I did not remove all of it, but I tried.... Removing the install and reinstalling is not the same as installing on a new computer. cgf -- 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/
