From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Brian J. Ackermann" <brianj774@gmx.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Strange new behavior...
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302051210570.25432-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E414303.7040207@gmx.net>
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
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2003-02-05 17:02 ` Brian J. Ackermann
2003-02-05 17:12 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
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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