Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 12:31, Wes Barris wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: > > > >>My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a > >>share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains > >>all of my data including a folder that I wish to use

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer/s

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: > My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a > share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains > all of my data including a folder that I wish to use as my home > directory (W: is mapped to //mycomputer/share/home).

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 23:08, Wes Barris wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/pas

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2010 23:08, Wes Barris wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: >> >>> What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' >>> option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case >>> both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-02 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Wes Barris wrote: Hi Pavel, I don't think that I understood anything you said. I've never run something called "Sysprep" (whatever that is). Are you suggesting that I need to run "cacls ..."? What exactly will that do? Hi Wes, no problem if you don't understand. My reaction was to your senten

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
Dave Korn wrote: On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files accordingly so that my directory

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
Pavel Kudrna wrote: Wes Barris wrote: On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. ... a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks as the owner and group fields like this: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 2010-01-10

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote: > What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n' > option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case > both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files accordingly so that my directory listing look

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Wes Barris wrote: On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. ... a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks as the owner and group fields like this: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects If yo

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-03-01 Thread Wes Barris
On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working. The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands don'

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote: I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working. The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands don't seem to produc

How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

2010-02-28 Thread Wes Barris
I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working. The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands don't seem to produce files that work. I'm sure that I'm missi