> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:46 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message > > After installing Cygwin 1.5.25 and bringing up RXVT, I got a message > I've seen in the past, saying 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd" ...'. > It advises me to run "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" to fill in records in > /etc/group and /etc/passwd. > > If I run "mkpasswd -l" it completes quickly, but doesn't include my > record. I run "mkpasswd -d", which seems to be implied as the correct > thing to do, but it doesn't run very quickly. In fact, I've never > waited long enough for it to complete. I work for a very large > company, > if that's going to try to list all the login records in the entire > company. > > I tried doing "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" and then "mkpasswd -d -u > <mylogin> >> /etc/passwd". That appeared to take care of the > /etc/passwd file for just my login (the only one I care about), but I'm > not sure of a similar approach for "mkgroup". I tried using "mkgroup - > d > -g <groupname>", but I'm not sure what group name to use.
Never mind. The strategy of using "-ldu" on mkpasswd along with "-ld" on mkgroup is useful. We have 8 zillion users, but a much smaller number of groups. The "mkgroup -ld" completed in just a few minutes. -- 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
