After installing Cygwin 1.5.25 and bringing up RXVT, I got a message I've seen in the past, saying 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd" ...'. It advises me to run "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" to fill in records in /etc/group and /etc/passwd.
If I run "mkpasswd -l" it completes quickly, but doesn't include my record. I run "mkpasswd -d", which seems to be implied as the correct thing to do, but it doesn't run very quickly. In fact, I've never waited long enough for it to complete. I work for a very large company, if that's going to try to list all the login records in the entire company. I tried doing "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" and then "mkpasswd -d -u <mylogin> >> /etc/passwd". That appeared to take care of the /etc/passwd file for just my login (the only one I care about), but I'm not sure of a similar approach for "mkgroup". I tried using "mkgroup -d -g <groupname>", but I'm not sure what group name to use. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
