On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:52:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It necessarily involves starting off "unknown". In the course of trying to >work my way round this I became finally aware of something that's been >nagging me in the background for ages: specifically (and nastily) that the >default name for an otherwise unspecified group is "mkpasswd", as in > >~> id >uid=400(unknown) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd) > >or > >~> ls -al >drwxr-xr-x 7 unknown mkpasswd 2048 Jul 3 18:51 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 3 unknown mkpasswd 2048 Jul 3 18:51 ../ >-r--r--r-- 1 unknown mkpasswd 509 Jul 3 21:00 .bashrc >drwxr-xr-x 2 unknown mkpasswd 2048 Jul 3 18:51 bin/ > >It seems a strangely arbitrary and inappropriate choice to me. If this is a >Unix inheritance then I suppose it's best not to fiddle, but is it something >that could be altered?
If you are asking if we are going to be altering it, the answer is no. >(Is it, in fact, a minor error?) It is a hint that you should run mkpasswd to create /etc/passwd. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
