From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14623 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2012 17:38:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 14611 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2012 17:38:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_MK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173019pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:38:34 +0000 Received: from consult.pretender ([unknown] [96.237.238.222]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M830055O7NGYOQ1@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:38:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from consult.pretender (consult.pretender [127.0.0.1]) by consult.pretender (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q71Hc2NB030226; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:38:03 -0400 From: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-id: <20505.27002.935583.725604@consult.pretender> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:38:00 -0000 To: Mirko Vukovic Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' In-reply-to: References: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2012-08/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 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! -- 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