Thanks for the help. I set up both passwd and group files using -d option. Now when I "ls -l" my cygwin home directory I find these files owned by "dickra". I believe this is "Ryan Dick" an employee here. Perhaps NTUSER.DAT is causing the "mkpasswd -l" to create a "Ryan" user.
d---------+ 2 dickra Domain Users 0 Aug 7 2006 .Trash-root ----------+ 1 dickra Domain Users 5505024 Apr 6 12:14 NTUSER.DAT I fixed the .Trash-root ownership problem but hesitant to approach NTUSER.DAT problem. What is a recommended way to fix this? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:47 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: mkpasswd -l gives wrong local user > > Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > > I had a PC with full cygwin install. Then my company > > replaced it with a more powerful PC and in the process > > copied C:\Cygwin over to the new PC. > > > > When I run "mkpasswd -l" instead of giving user 'harryr' > > I get another user: > > FWIW, the only local user I see that likely wasn't just > created by some > installation program is "Ryan". > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > A: Yes. > > Q: Are you sure? > >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
