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From: "Brian J. Ackermann" <brianj774@gmx.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Strange new behavior...
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E414303.7040207@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044463776.5479.ezmlm@cygwin.com>

>
>
Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution)

Thanks a bunch...

I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete uninstall, and consequent reinstall?

Brian


>>Vince says: 
>>
>>sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with
>>mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
>>mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
>>and if you are in a domain 
>>mkpasswd -d -u "your username" >> /etc/passwd
>>    
>>


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       reply	other threads:[~2003-02-05 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1044463776.5479.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
2003-02-05 17:02 ` Brian J. Ackermann [this message]
2003-02-05 17:12   ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-02-05 17:13     ` Brian J. Ackermann
2003-02-05 17:18       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-02-05 17:23         ` Brian J. Ackermann
2003-02-06 16:39           ` Brian McGroarty
2003-02-05 14:39 Vince Hoffman
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2003-02-05 14:28 Brian J. Ackermann

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