Warning to use mkpasswd

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Mister Fred Ma wrote:
> Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all
> users on Windows XP.  The administrator account is local to the
> machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user
> account.  When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator, things
> are fine.  When I launch it as nonadministrator, I get the message
> 
>   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.
> 
> Here is what I did to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> 
> As administrator, I did
> 
>   mkpasswd -l >| /etc/passwd
>   mkgroup -l >| /etc/group
> 
> As nonadministrator, I then did
> 
>   mkpasswd -d | ssh AdminAccount@localhost "cat >> /etc/passwd"
>   mkgroup -d | ssh AdminAccount@localhost "cat >> /etc/group"
> 
> As an indication of proper functionality, I noted that I can
> successfully log in using
> 
>   ssh AdminAccount@localhost
>   ssh nonAdminAccount@localhost
> 
> Is there anything further I can do to avoid the warning message
> at the start of this posting?  As a possible clue, I noticed that
> when I log onto Windows as nonAdministrator and start cygwin bash,
> my home diretory ~ is
> 
>   /c/Documents and Settings/NonAdminAccount
> 
> Here, c:\ is mounted as /c.  When I ssh into
> nonAdminAccount@localhost, however, ~ becomes /home/NonAdminAccount,
> which is c:\cygwin\home\NonAdminAccount.


'ssh' uses the information in your '/etc/passwd' file to determine your
home directory.  You can use the '-h' flag to mkpasswd to set this as
you desire, if the default is not what you want.


> Fred
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     cygcheck -cvs output, as queried from NonAdminAccount
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please don't append this information,

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