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Re: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:49:36 -0000
- Subject: Re: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces
- References: <45FAFBD7.4000802@gmail.com> <45FB0398.1090808@gmail.com>
* Robert Peaslee (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:52:40 -0400)
> Actually, this information is incorrect.
>
> Windows XP stores the first username you choose and will associate your
> current username to it regardless of what you change it to. Cygwin
> stores nothing, it is asking Windows what your username is and getting a
> response of what Windows tells it.
Cygwin asks Windows at first install about the user names and creates
/etc/passwd. The problem is (or can be) that this list never gets updated
even if the user names change or new user are added.
As Keith wrote:
"Subsequent installations of CygWin utilize the aforementioned out of
date username list, even though those usernames have been changed and
are no longer valid."
The secret is to run
mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd
and
mkgroup -l -c > /etc/group
Also you have to run this if you're in a domain (because Cygwin retrieves
only the local user names, not the domain names).
Thorsten
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