Hello all,
I've been running cygwin now for nearly three years, and I've very
recently run into a very strange little problem.
When starting cygwin now, I have a new username 't-ow' (this is not what
I login to win2000 as which is 'BrianA'), and my 'home' directory
appears to be 'C\:'
I've
Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution)
Thanks a bunch...
I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete uninstall, and consequent reinstall?
Brian
Vince says:
sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with
mv /etc/passwd
), and a reinstall won't recreate them if they are already
present.
Igor
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote:
Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution)
Thanks a bunch...
I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete
uninstall, and consequent reinstall?
Brian
this fact is documented somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment.
Igor
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote:
Understandable, but in my desperation I removed the entire C:\cygwin
root directory, no to mention a number of regustry entries...
So, one might think I was thourough
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