Mirko Vukovic wrote at about 10:19:31 -0400 on Wednesday, August 1, 2012: > 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. >
I did that... but I still get the same error message and the group is still all mkpasswd. My /etc/passwd and /etc/group files "seem" right so I don't know why it isn't working. Frustrating! -- 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
