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RE: No home directory on fresh setup
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Vorst, Jan van der" <JVorst at NedCar dot nl>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:42:34 +1100
- Subject: RE: No home directory on fresh setup
Not sure if this has already been answered... so if it has - sorry. There was a bug in mkpasswd in win9x that has been corrected now, so try updating to newer packages and it should work correctly.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vorst, Jan van der [mailto:JVorst@NedCar.nl]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:51 AM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: No home directory on fresh setup
>
>
> A fresh installation of the latest cygwin results in no home
> directory. One enters in /usr/bin/<user>.
> I editted passwd to point to it /home/<user> and created the
> /home/<user> directory manually. This resulted in a correct login.
> Then CVS however didn't work well anymore in that the
> administration database was not updated in case of a modules checkin.
>
> I downloaded the previous cygwin version and made a fresh
> installation of this one. It had none of the above problems.
> After updating this one to the latest version (so no fresh
> installation) the problems did not reappear.
>
> So it seems to me there is a problem with the fresh latest
> installation procedure.
>
> The problem is reproducable on my machine.
> I cleaned the registry before each fresh installation (setup).
>
> The following report <<Mattias Brändström - home directory
> problems.url>> seems to be the same.
>
> included are:
> 1. cygchecklatest: fresh installation of latest cygwin
> 2. cygcheckprev: fresh installation of previous cygwin
> 3. cygcheckprev2latest: previous to latest
>
> <<sygcheckprev>> <<cygcheckprev2latest>> <<cygchecklatest>>
> regards, Jan van der Vorst
>
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