RE: bad installation ?

[Matthew Johnson <mej1960 at yahoo dot com>]

Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think
it tells "all Banibrata needs to know".

The big unanswered question that is probably still
bothering Banibrata is, "how on earth did the group
get to be 'mkpasswd' in the first place?" I very much
doubt that Banibrata set it to that. And I have never
seen that in Cygwin or Cygwin/X before. So it sounds
like some drastic error condition did this. And if it
did, who knows what _else_ is messed up in the
installation? THAT is what Banitrata needs to know; it
was NOT contained in the message.

Another thing Banibrata needs to know that was not
explained is which of the FOUR methods of rebuilding
the password file is appropriate for this condition.

Now it may very well be that the readers of the list
cannot answer this for Banibrata, since it varies from
case to case, and Banibrata simply has to knuckle-down
and read the man pages. But even if this is the case,
some guidelines for how to intepret the man pages
would be the right, helpful response.

To that end, I propose to Banibrata the following
questions:

1 - do you need remote access?
2 - what version of Windows are you running?
3 - do you have access to the Domain Controller?
4 - where do you have your home directory
(directories)?

The answers to these questions will tell you whether
or not you need the '-d' option, etc.

--- Phil Betts <Phil.Betts@heis.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:23 PM, Banibrata
> Dutta wrote:
> > Could anybody explain the following behaviour or
> Cygwin and "startx"
> > in Cygwin...
> > 
> > <capture>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
>  <snip>
> 
> > Could someone please help ?
> 
> Did you actually *read* what you posted?
> 
> It tells you all you need to know.

[snip]



	
		
__________________________________ 
Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! 
Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web 
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/