From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7159 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 17:23:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 7149 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 17:23:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 17:23:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 31740 invoked by uid 0); 5 Feb 2003 17:23:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gmx.net) (209.150.198.66) by mail.gmx.net (mp014-rz3) with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 17:23:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3E4147F1.3040405@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:23:00 -0000 From: "Brian J. Ackermann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange new behavior... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00337.txt.bz2 Good to know, Although I still find it curious that it had been working until last week sometime, when I updated... Thanks much!! Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Oops, sorry, should have read your message more carefully... >/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh simply does not create domain users. I'm >sure this fact is documented somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment. > Igor > >On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote: > > > >>Understandable, but in my desperation I removed the entire C:\cygwin >>root directory, no to mention a number of regustry entries... >> >>So, one might think I was thourough... >> >>Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> >> >>>Because even a complete uninstall won't remove user-created files (such as >>>/etc/passwd), and a reinstall won't recreate them if they are already >>>present. >>> Igor >>> >>>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>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 >>>>>> >>>>>> > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/