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RE: How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:46 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: How to resolve 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' message
>
> After installing Cygwin 1.5.25 and bringing up RXVT, I got a message
> I've seen in the past, saying 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"
...'.
> It advises me to run "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" to fill in records in
> /etc/group and /etc/passwd.
>
> If I run "mkpasswd -l" it completes quickly, but doesn't include my
> record. I run "mkpasswd -d", which seems to be implied as the correct
> thing to do, but it doesn't run very quickly. In fact, I've never
> waited long enough for it to complete. I work for a very large
> company,
> if that's going to try to list all the login records in the entire
> company.
>
> I tried doing "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" and then "mkpasswd -d -u
> <mylogin> >> /etc/passwd". That appeared to take care of the
> /etc/passwd file for just my login (the only one I care about), but
I'm
> not sure of a similar approach for "mkgroup". I tried using "mkgroup
-
> d
> -g <groupname>", but I'm not sure what group name to use.
Never mind. The strategy of using "-ldu" on mkpasswd along with "-ld"
on mkgroup is useful. We have 8 zillion users, but a much smaller
number of groups. The "mkgroup -ld" completed in just a few minutes.
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