Hi,
I had a question about this statement:
"Since your user is a domain user, you need to use the '-d' flag
indicated above in
both commands."
I am a domain user, and when I try to use the -d flag, cygwin just
hangs. I'm not sure why..?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
wrote:
> On 09/23/2009 11:01 AM, Dave M wrote:
>>
>> Dave,
>>
>> I checked that readme file. Um, I am not sure what it is telling me, it
>> is not really laid out step by step. I think it would be more useful if I
>> read
>> it from the bottom to the top. But still, I THINK I did everything it
>> suggested. I had run ssh-host-config before, today I ran ssh-user-config
>> and
>> made SYSTEM the owner of /var/empty and checked the permissions on the
>> sshd_server account (the host-config script had set them correctly, I
>> didn't
>> have to do anything to the account privileges).
>
> SYSTEM is the proper owner for XP and W2K. For later WIndows versions, it's
> cyg_server. See ssh-host-config and related scripts for all the details.
> Since it's
> not possible to know what you've done in the process of playing around with
> this,
> you'll need to manually check all the permissions and ownerships of files
> mentioned
> in the scripts to make sure they are set as they are supposed to be. This
> is why
> using the scripts is highly recommended. It's allot less work and
> error-prone. ;-)
>
>
>
>> Also, every time I log in to the bash shell, I get this:
>> Your group is currently "mkgroup". This indicates that
>> the /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) 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.
>> I have run:
>> mkpasswd -l> /etc/passwd
>> mkgroup -l> /etc/group
>> Both successfully (in that order) and the contents of those files "look"
>> right, but I still keep getting that message. I don't know if this is
>> related or not.
>
> Since your user is a domain user, you need to use the '-d' flag indicated
> above in
> both commands.
>
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> A: Yes.
>> Q: Are you sure?
>>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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