Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I couldn't find the > solution in the archives. > > I've been using Cygwin for a few years now, and the install has always worked > great. Today I started getting the following error when I installed it (at my > new job): > > Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified. > > Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly. > This typically happens if you are a domain user > (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or > /etc/group for domain users) > > In /etc/group, I have: > > mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-3941461891-1737259440-******-513:10513:
This is an indication that you need to run `mkgroup -l` (or `-ld' if your a domain user). If you really don't need ntsec (or ntea) support, then I suppose you don't need to worry about this. It's there because this is the cause of some common Cygwin problems. > [...] > C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) > UID: 11187(mraible) GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d) > 10513(mkgroup_l_d) > > C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec) > UID: 11187(mraible) GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d) > 544(Administrators) 547(Power Users) > 545(Users) 10513(mkgroup_l_d) -- Elfyn -- 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/