On Jul 18 22:35, cyg...@kosowsky.org wrote: > I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin > privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). > > I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' every > time I open a new terminal. > > Since this is a domain, I first tried "mpasswd -l -d >| /etc/passwd" > but the domain lookup seemed to hang forever (after first generating > the local group portion). Note that "mkgroup -l -d >| /etc/group > worked but was slow. > > I then tried "mkpasswd -l -c >| /etc/passwd" followed by "mkgroup -l > -c >| /etc/group" > > But I still got the same 'mkpasswd' error message and indeed running > groups just returned 'mkpasswd' and running 'id -a' returned: > uid=400(MYUSERNAME) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd) > > I have never had this problem before on non-domain PC's. > > Any thoughts on what I need to do to fix this?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd Did you try the -d option? 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
