On Feb 2 01:28, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > >>> Hi; > >>> > >>> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The > >>> RPC server is unavailable > >> > >> The User's Guide may help: > >> > >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup > >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd > >> > >> Try `mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd'. Otherwise /etc/passwd is treated as > >> argument to the -l option. > >> > >>> Is this a result of Cygwin not being formally supported for 64-bit > >>> WIndows? > >> > >> Who on earth told you that? See http://cygwin.com/ > >> > >> > >> Corinna > >> > > > > Oh my! :-) > > > > My vision is really getting bad! I did not see that I missed the > > redirection. > > > > Thank you for the gentle correction; it works fine now. > > > > Sorry for the noise. > > > > Ken > > Update: > > Starting the mintty shelll again I get the same message suggesting > running the mkpasswd and mkgroup. > > I do the command without the -d and everything seems to work. > > mkpasswd -l > /.etc/passwd; mkgroup -l > /etc/group ^^^^^^' <dot>etc? > I exit the shell and start mintty again and the warning appears again > suggesting the running of mkpasswd and mkgroup. > > Why doesn't the change persist?
Did you check /etc/passwd and /etc/group if they contain your user and your primary group account? Are you sure you are using a local account? Compare the information with the output of /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /user /groups Important are not the account names, but the account SIDs! You can change the user and group names in /etc/passwd and /etc/group whatever you like (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html). If you're using a domain account on the machine, you either have to use the mkpasswd/mkgroup -d option to get the domain and group accounts, or you can just restrict the files to your user by using the -c option and append the output to the files, like this: $ mkpasswd -c >> /etc/passwd; mkgroup -c >> /etc/group or, in one go: $ mkpasswd -l -c >> /etc/passwd; mkgroup -l -c >> /etc/group Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
