On May 15 11:43, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d > to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly > use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most > built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.) > are localized. With cygwin 1.5 these names were successfully exported > by mkpasswd/mkgroup, however with cygwin 1.7 all such usernames are > silently ignored and don't appear in the output. > > Since my primary group is "Domain Users" every time I execute > cygwin.bat I see this: > > Your group is currently "mkgroup". This indicates that neither > your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID) > is in /etc/group. > > The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt. > See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > > mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > > Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. > > Is it some bug or was it a design decision?
It's missing setlcoale calls in the first place. I'm going to fix that. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/