On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:15:22PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: > > I don't understand it that well myself, but as you pointed out, it is not > the same thing, but a different thing. And, the default does not work. > The -d adds the current user and setup does not. However, it logs you > in as the current user, which does not have an entry in the /etc/passwd file,
Domain users should run mkpasswd and mkgroup with the -d and -l switches to update /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Setup cannot do it reliably for a number of reasons, e.g. it can be run when the user is logged in locally, or is disconnected from the domain controller. In addition it can take a long time. That may be why setup doesn't attempt it. > which causes all sorts of things to break. I am working on making cygwin much more tolerant to imperfect passwd/group files. This should start showing up in cvs and the snapshots. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
