mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-18 Thread Robb, Sam
A colleague ran into problems running mkpasswd and mkgroup on her machine, as shown below: Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-18 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? Yes, this has come up before, though I couldn't find a pointer either. T

RE: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-18 Thread Robb, Sam
> At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: > >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in > >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate > >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? > > Yes, this has come up before, though I couldn't find a > poi

RE: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-18 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:10 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >> At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >> >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in >> >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate >> >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? >> >> Yes, this has come up

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 18:10, Robb, Sam wrote: > So, she *should* have had the username and id for a domain > user. Something in cygwin (mkpasswd, cygwin1.dll, etc.) > seems to think she's the local user with the same username > for some reason. This isn't exaclty a Cygwin problem. mkpasswd and mkgroup are b

RE: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

2005-05-19 Thread Robb, Sam
> On May 18 18:10, Robb, Sam wrote: > > So, she *should* have had the username and id for a domain > > user. Something in cygwin (mkpasswd, cygwin1.dll, etc.) > > seems to think she's the local user with the same username > > for some reason. > > This isn't exaclty a Cygwin problem. mkpasswd and