Cygwin 1.7 domains and home directories

[John Morrison]

Hi All,

I've migrated (new install directory; registry remained from the 1.5
install) my work machine to the 1.7 dlls but I'm having a problem which is
proving hard to track.

My passwd file has...

morrijr:unused:278875:10513:Morrison,
John,U-EXPERIANUK\morrijr,S-1-5-21-117609710-152049171-1801674531-268875:/home/morrijr:/bin/bash

and I've an entry in fstab (which got taken from my 1.5 installation)
which should mount /home/morrijr...

d:/Wrkfile /home/morrijr some_fs binary 0 0

my fstab.d/morrijr is empty apart from comments.  Now, *sometimes* when I
start cygwin (via the standard batch file) I get ~ to be my "c:\Documents
and Settings\[user]\" and othertimes it all works and ~ is /home/morrijr
which is mounted to "d:\Wrkfile".  I've not be able to workout when or
why.

When it doesn't honor the path in my passwd file it also comes up with the

"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."

message.

Note that the group file is *very* big (IMO) 6505 entries!  There's only
local users and my domain account in my passwd file (16 entries).

Can anyone suggest anything I can try either to fix or more reliably
reproduce the problem?

Cygcheck output attached, but everything was OK.

J.



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