Discussions about cygwin mkpasswd

How can I change my Cygwin home folder after installation? I just installed Cygwin, and it looks like the home directory in the bash prompt is on my Z: drive. That's not where I want it. How can I change this? Started by Nathan Long on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): See this FAQ. Passwd, or it's blank, you didn't run mkpasswd as instructed the first time you ran Cygwin.

Safely change home directory in cygwin I'm trying to safely update the home directory as specified in /etc/passwd , but the standard linux utils - usermod and vipw - for doing so aren't provided by cygwin. Could anyone tell me how they changed this in cygwin? If you know where these utils ... Started by sblundy on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Note: don't escape answer, you can.... So far, so good. While you're exiting all my cygwin shells and editing it by hand in a text editor. The use of cygpath in the example above is another of these cygwin-specific tools. mkpasswd ).

Cygwin sshd on Windows 7 issue Using an administrator privileged account I have installed cygwin sshd following instructions here successfully on Windows XP, Vista, but on Windows 7, after installation without errors when I try to start the service ... net start sshd The CYGWIN sshd... Started by Murali on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Right click on the cygwin icon user, try running: mkpasswd -l .... All of the following need to run from an elevated cygwin prompt. I think this is the fact that Cygwin hasn't quite caught up with the changes Microsoft made on.

How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:45:30 -0700, "KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" <dk068x@att.com 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... Started by DAVID on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 3 posts by 2 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): We have 8;robertmarkbram.cygwin@gmail.com Hi David, In a corporate environment (with domains), I run this: mkpasswd -l -c. The strategy of using "-ldu" on mkpasswd along with "-ld" on mkgroup is useful. Never mind.

mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:38:31 +0100, Julio Costa <costaju@gmail.com Hi, In last cygwin beta: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin If I do (obviously found by mistake): $ mkpasswd -n 0 mkpasswd: unknown... Started by Julio Costa on Friday, October 02, 2009, 4 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): I can not reproduce it with the latest from CVS Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin .... Reproduce this with mkpasswd from the latest test release.

Bug in mkpasswd (1.7) On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:47:11 -0400, Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm Always prints the standard well-known users, even when just requesting a single user's entry: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 VMWARE-XP 1.7.0(0.186/5/3) 2008-08-15 15:17 i6... Started by Charles Wilson on Saturday, August 16, 2008, 10 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): `mkpasswd as the stackdump file Somehow I think that mkpasswd isn't intended to be run without arguments but the help;cgf-use-the-mailinglist.... I will also expand on this. I will attach the same cygcheck that I did on the other post .

mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning. On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:14:25 -0700, Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org This is still a problem. /binSYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-... Started by Linda Walsh on Friday, July 30, 2010, 4 posts by 2 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): I've tried building things from cygwin before and never had any luck just Aug 2010 23:44:38 -0400, "Larry Hall \(.... On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:33:24 -0400, "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com here to do the same.

Re: Bug in mkpasswd (1.7) On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:00:47 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com Should be fixed now as well. Thanks for the report. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader... Started by Corinna Vinschen on Monday, August 18, 2008, 5 posts by 2 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen .... It may into it. (nonexist) whereas mkpasswd reports: $ mkpasswd -l -u nonexist mkpasswd (444): [2221] The user name could not be found. Mkgroup (391): [0] The operation completed successfully.

Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:46:44 -0500, "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <cygwin@kosowsky.org When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get: owner/group = ???????/???????, implying that the numeric uid/gid are not found in the passwd/group file. This... Started by Jeffrey J. Kosowsky on Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 8 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): Windows-files---despite-mkpasswd-mkgroup-tp30555568p30571878.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing listOn Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:39:53 -0500, "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com://cygwin.com/cygwin....

Cygwin and domain users... On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:28:14 -0800 (PST), garethrichardadams <garethrichardadams@hotmail.com Hi all, I've set up Cygwin on a portable usb drive and would like to use it on different machines. The problem is that one of the machines is a standalone... Started by garethrichardadams on Friday, January 23, 2009, 4 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at omgili Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili): If you just have the current user to add, try: .... On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:45:05 -0500, "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com Cygwin to work with these users as Windows sees them, which is really what you want.