From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10773 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2012 14:19:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 10763 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2012 14:19:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_MK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vb0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f43.google.com) (209.85.212.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:19:32 +0000 Received: by vbbfq11 with SMTP id fq11so7408957vbb.2 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:19:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.221.1.137 with SMTP id nq9mr17002784vcb.16.1343830771265; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.200.166 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:19:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> References: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' From: Mirko Vukovic To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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/msg00019.txt.bz2 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 -- 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