On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > Currently I am trying to create a valid /etc/passwd > using 'mkpasswd -ld >/etc/passwd'. But it dies with > > The user name could not be found. > > Of course without telling me _which_ user it could > not find. Poor design :-(. Any idea how this can be > solved?
Are you sure it died? Is /etc/passwd empty? Out of curiosity, does mkpasswd -lds also fail? (even if it doesn't, the passwd file is pretty useless because won't have the sids) Pierre -- 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/