Can't create home directory

V:) voyteck3@wp.pl
Fri Mar 8 06:51:00 GMT 2002


Have you tried to regenerate the groups (mkgroup -l > /etc/group). This
might work...

Voyteck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Winston Gutkowski" <winston.gutkowski@eztext.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Can't create home directory


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install cygwin to test the openssh server. I have had it on
my
> machine before and removed it, and am trying to install it again. I
believe
> I have gone through all the correct steps for uninstallation (registry
> entries, environment variables and the like), but now, whenever I install,
I
> get errors as soon as I try to execute bash, saying that Administrator
does
> not have permissions to create /home/Administrator.
>
> I have tried changing ownership to 544:544, opening everything to 777,
> setting the directory open to Everyone in Windows, but nothing seems to
> work. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? I have tried to
search
> the archives, but could not find any entries.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Winston Gutkowski



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