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Re: Cygwin Newbie Question
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:33:14 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question
> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
> UID: 400(david) GID: 401(mkpasswd)
> 401(mkpasswd)
It looks like the your /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group
files were not created correctly by the setup.exe
postinstall process. Can you describe the process you
used to install Cygwin?
Oh, and running
mkpasswd > /etc/passwd
mkgroup > /etc/group
might solve your HOME problem.
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