Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>]

Greetings, Kеre Edvardsen!

> I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account
> with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or
> xterm) as another user prompts:

>      Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that your
>      gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd
 
>      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.

> Before asking too many questions I should inform you that the settings
> etc. for the various users on the W7 client resides on a separat server.
> I've tried various suggestions found in the lists, but with no success.
> Obviously, there is a solution to my problem, but I'm struggling to find
> the right one.

It's in front of your eyes.
Don't you see it?

>      mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>      mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 13.10.2011, <17:55>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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