From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mkpasswd doesn't recognize me
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 05:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6902f9e4-215b-56a9-550e-8bb90c948d51@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A97BA01965BD834CBCD85A70A4B7EA7FCA2CFD4D@daeexmbx1.eur.ad.sag>
On 2017-08-22 23:27, Wiedmann, Jochen wrote:
> in order to set my home directory correctly in /etc/passwd, I run
> mkpasswd | grep MYUSERID
> mkpasswd -d | grep MYUSERID
> mkpasswd -d -l | grep MYUSERID
> mkpasswd -l | grep MYUSERID
> Neither of which returns any output.
Run id and mkpasswd and see what they output for your account.
Also run net user <account> and see what that outputs for your account:
Full Name is the Windows logon alias for your account.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-23 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-23 5:27 Wiedmann, Jochen
2017-08-23 5:59 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2017-08-23 6:11 ` Wiedmann, Jochen
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