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Re: passwd file entry missing
- To: "David M. Karr" <dkarr at tcsi dot com>
- Subject: Re: passwd file entry missing
- From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:21:13 -0800
- CC: Larry Hall <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010131183736.06070db8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <uyd7d3ff5x.fsf@tcsi.com>
Did you use the setup program on your machine and not his? I believe it runs mkpasswd for you, if /etc/passwd does not exist.
"David M. Karr" wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Larry" == Larry Hall <cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:
> Larry> At 06:29 PM 1/31/2001, David M. Karr wrote:
> >> I've got Cygwin working fine on my PC. I'm helping someone else set
> >> up Cygwin on their PC. I created a "/home/<username>", and set HOME
> >> in control panel to "/home/<username>". Most things work fine.
> >> However, one odd thing is that the "id" program shows his userid as
> >> "administrator". I thought to look in the "/etc/passwd" file, and
> >> compare it to what I have. My "/etc/passwd" file has an entry for my
> >> name, but his does not have an entry for his name. Despite this
> >> anomaly, I'm not quite sure what problems this might cause, if any.
> >>
> >> What are some reasons why he doesn't have a passwd file entry? What
> >> did I do to get an entry for me in my passwd file? I know I didn't do
> >> it manually.
>
> Larry> You ran mkpasswd. Do so on the other (NT/W2K) machine and you should be
> Larry> fine.
>
> Uh, ok. I just did "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" on his PC, and now
> "id" and "whoami" give me something reasonable. However, I'm quite
> sure I never did that on my system. I think I remember reading about
> it in the manual, but I'm pretty sure I never explicitly ran it.
>
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