From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19808 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2012 07:28:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 19677 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jul 2012 07:28:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:27:47 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8F1BD2C0074; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:27:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:28:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' Message-ID: <20120719072744.GT31055@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00385.txt.bz2 On Jul 18 22:35, cygwin@kosowsky.org wrote: > I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin > privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). > > I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' every > time I open a new terminal. > > Since this is a domain, I first tried "mpasswd -l -d >| /etc/passwd" > but the domain lookup seemed to hang forever (after first generating > the local group portion). Note that "mkgroup -l -d >| /etc/group > worked but was slow. > > I then tried "mkpasswd -l -c >| /etc/passwd" followed by "mkgroup -l > -c >| /etc/group" > > But I still got the same 'mkpasswd' error message and indeed running > groups just returned 'mkpasswd' and running 'id -a' returned: > uid=400(MYUSERNAME) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd) > > I have never had this problem before on non-domain PC's. > > Any thoughts on what I need to do to fix this? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkpasswd Did you try the -d option? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple