On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM, <...> 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.
In my case, mkpasswd -d is an exercise in patience (many minutes, definitely less then 30), but it does eventually return a very long list. Let it run. Mirko -- 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
