At 04:17 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote:
>Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >>
>/etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in
>fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe?
>
>It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd
>-d >> /etc/passwd". It is adding all the users from the NT domain to the
>passwd file. You can do a "mkpasswd -d | grep bgoldstein >>
>/etc/passwd", that will take the same amount of time but only put your
>username in the passwd file (where bgoldstein is your username).
>
>HTH,
>Peter
Thanks -- yes, there is a mkpasswd.exe in bin.
I did mkpasswd -d >&mkpasswd.txt and got the following
Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
mkpasswd: error 2453
My machine is not on a LAN (just a cable modem to my ISP). I log on to NT
as "Barry Goldstein", with full administrator privileges. Maybe the space
in the name is causing the error?
My cygwin home directory is /usr/bag, FWIW.
I just tried mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd and the first three lines above are
indeed in the file, but I still have no name.
It's not worth a lot of hassle, but I'm going to wrestle with the PS[0-9]
environment vars which set the prompt (and are also, I think, responsible
for the lousy colors (even if I change them with the NT box properties,
they go right back to lousy at a new prompt).
Thanks.
BG
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