On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi - > > I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of > packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list. Thanks a > lot to all of you. > > So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen > above the bash prompt: > > Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly. > This typically happens if you are a domain user > (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or > /etc/group for domain users) > > What should I do here? Is there such a thing as a 'root' account and user > accounts? > > Thanks in advance.
Please read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the bit about attaching (as in 'uncompressed text *attachment*') the output of "cygcheck -svr". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
