On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:28:05PM +0000, Owen Rees wrote: >--On 10 March 2005 20:14 +0000 John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote: >>Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if appropriate) to >>the passwd and group files which is what the message attempts to help >>the user to do. It appears (judging from the number of times this >>question isn't now appearing on the lists) to have worked for most >>people, but I'm always looking for perfection ;) >> >>Hope this helps explain things, > >My system is not in the same domain as my login id, and I suspect that >may make a difference. One of the problems with saying "if >appropriate" is that it assumes that the reader knows when it is >appropriate, but if they did, they would probably not need to ask the >question. > >Searching the mail archives turned up this in ><http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00642.html>:
As the above link suggests, this discussion is off topic for cygwin-xfree. Please move it to the main list. You'll have a lot more people to pick on than John Morrison in the main list. I'm blocking this subject from further discussion here. cgf