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RE: Can't create home directory


To answer your questions in turn:
/ is c:\cygwin, I would assume therefore that /home is c:\cygwin\home and,
yes, I am a domain user.
The odd thing is I've had cygwin working on my machine before with no
problems. Is this passwd change a new requirement?
To my knowledge, the only change I made, at the suggestion of Michael
Erdely's SSHD setup page (http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp) was to
change the CYGWIN variable to "ntsec tty" (was just "tty").
He seems to suggest that this is the best setting for W2K with NTFS,
although I have no idea what the "ntsec" means.

Winston

-----Original Message-----
From: flognat@localhost.localdomain
[mailto:flognat@localhost.localdomain]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:44
To: Winston Gutkowski
Subject: Re: Can't create home directory


Where is /, /home, and are you on a domain, or it is local users??

If domain, you should probably upgrade the /etc/passwd as stated in
the faq somewhere..

        /Andy

/ "Winston Gutkowski" <winston.gutkowski@eztext.com> wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm trying to install cygwin to test the openssh server. I have had it on
my
| machine before and removed it, and am trying to install it again. I
believe
| I have gone through all the correct steps for uninstallation (registry
| entries, environment variables and the like), but now, whenever I install,
I
| get errors as soon as I try to execute bash, saying that Administrator
does
| not have permissions to create /home/Administrator.
|
| I have tried changing ownership to 544:544, opening everything to 777,
| setting the directory open to Everyone in Windows, but nothing seems to
| work. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? I have tried to
search
| the archives, but could not find any entries.
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| Winston Gutkowski
|
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