I have just set-up cygwin (1.5.19-4) on a XP/Pro/SP2 non-domain system and got the expected: Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
When I enter the mkgroup command: $ mkgroup -l SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-#####-513:513: ..etc.. (I assume the group information is OK.) When I enter the mkpasswd command: $ mkpasswd -l SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: mkpasswd (272): [1359] An internal error occurred. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ My NT login has full admin privileges when I am setting up cygwin and running the shell. I believe I need a valid /etc/passwd in order to run ssh. -- 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/
