On Feb 26 16:46, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> OKAY, I have some passwd questions & problems associated with cygwin 1.7.
>
> PRIOR to 1.7, my UID/GID for "Paul" account was 501/401 and all of my
> files have correct ownership. When I created /etc/passwd via:
Ouch. 401 is a FAKE gid which was supposed to tell you that you have to
rebuild your /etc/passwd file. Did you never wonder about the weird
name of the group, "mkpasswd"?
> vim x { changed: UID/GID to 501/401
Don't do that. Especially dont use 401 as gid. For the ownership of
the files the Cygwin uid/gid isn't important anyway. What's important
is that the SIDs are correct in passwd and group files.
> When I'm looking at document:
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd
> it doesn't describe this procedure as what to do next when converting
> an existing release to 1.7 ?? What next?? Remember, this was not a full
> upgrade; just updating /bin/cygwin1.dll. I have not made a commitment
> to do a full upgrade to 1.7 yet.
Don't do that.
I suggest to install 1.7 from scratch. A 1.7 installation can live
parallel to a 1.5 installation on the same machine, installed in another
directory (say, c:\cygwin-1.7), and even run parallel. 1.5 based
processes won't see 1.7 based processes running on the same machine.
After the new installation you should just check /etc/fstab and, if it
exists, /etc/fstab.d/Paul. Your 1.5 mount tbale will be imported and it
looks a bit strange to me. For instance, you're using / as cygdrive
prefix, which is not supported, and the following mount points
C:\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\etc on /etc type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\usr on /usr type system (binmode)
are superfluous and *might* break the 1.7 mount point import script.
Corinna
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