From: <cygwin@kosowsky.org>
To: Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20505.27002.935583.725604@consult.pretender> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO73BAA6NJwVSeH+dg_yvKPGvjsGubmo55poXz6=ShZnmMxRiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Mirko Vukovic wrote at about 10:19:31 -0400 on Wednesday, August 1, 2012:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM, <...> 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.
>
>
> In my case, mkpasswd -d is an exercise in patience (many minutes,
> definitely less then 30), but it does eventually return a very long
> list. Let it run.
>
I did that... but I still get the same error message and the group is
still all mkpasswd.
My /etc/passwd and /etc/group files "seem" right so I don't know why
it isn't working. Frustrating!
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-01 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 2:35 cygwin
2012-07-19 7:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-08-01 14:19 ` Mirko Vukovic
2012-08-01 17:38 ` cygwin [this message]
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