Hi Corinna, For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign machine'. Strikes me as ...
Until now, I believed that the output of mkpasswd/mkgroup had no dependency on /etc/nsswitch.conf. Henri @@ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Seven 1.7.34(0.281/5/3) 2014-11-13 16:14 i686 Cygwin @@ mkpasswd | grep Henri Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ mkpasswd -l | grep Henri Henri:unused:4244636648:4244636161:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ mkpasswd -l Seven | grep Henri Henri:unused:4244636648:4244636161:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files group: files db_enum: files After moving /etc/nsswitch.conf aside ... @@ mkpasswd | grep Henri Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ mkpasswd -l | grep Henri Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ mkpasswd -l Seven | grep Henri Henri:*:197608:197121:U-Seven\Henri,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1000:/home/Henri:/bin/bash @@ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf cat: /etc/nsswitch.conf: No such file or directory ===== -- 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