From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO73BAA6NJwVSeH+dg_yvKPGvjsGubmo55poXz6=ShZnmMxRiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender>
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.
Mirko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-01 14:19 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 [this message]
2012-08-01 17:38 ` cygwin
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