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Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'
- From: <cygwin at kosowsky dot org>
- To: Mirko Vukovic <mirko dot vukovic at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:38:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'
- References: <20487.29281.176356.713248@consult.pretender> <CAO73BAA6NJwVSeH+dg_yvKPGvjsGubmo55poXz6=ShZnmMxRiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Mirko Vukovic wrote at about 10:19:31 -0400 on Wednesday, August 1, 2012:
> 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.
>
I did that... but I still get the same error message and the group is
still all mkpasswd.
My /etc/passwd and /etc/group files "seem" right so I don't know why
it isn't working. Frustrating!
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