On 8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > That's the problem. I don't know how it disappeared from your /etc/passwd, > but `mkpasswd -l' always creates an entry for the user system. Just readd > it.
Thanks, again Corinna. After the mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l, and a bit of poking about, I found the reason I couldn't slogin to the PC: /etc/ssh* and /var/empty were owned by me instead of by system. luke -- 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/