2011/10/13 Edvardsen Kåre <kare.edvard...@uit.no>: > Greetings, Kеre Edvardsen! > >> I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account >> with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or >> xterm) as another user prompts: > >> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that your >> gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd > >> The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. >> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > >> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd >> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > >> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. > >> Before asking too many questions I should inform you that the settings >> etc. for the various users on the W7 client resides on a separat server. >> I've tried various suggestions found in the lists, but with no success. >> Obviously, there is a solution to my problem, but I'm struggling to find >> the right one. > > It's in front of your eyes. > Don't you see it? > >> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd >> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > > I wish it was that simple... > > As I said, I've tried various solutions (you'll find several posts around the > topic in the list) but non of them seem to solve my problen. meaning: > > mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > > and > > mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group > > (or using any other flags) does not make any difference... > > Cheers, > Kare >
What is the contents of the "/etc/password" and "/etc/group" files after you run the "mkpasswd/mkgroup" commands (as administrator)? What user can log in, but isn't in the password file? Is that user local or a domain user? -- 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
