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RE: bad installation ?
- From: "Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at heis dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:14:44 -0000
- Subject: RE: bad installation ?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:23 PM, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Could anybody explain the following behaviour or Cygwin and "startx"
> in Cygwin...
>
> <capture>
>
> 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 -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
<snip>
> Could someone please help ?
Did you actually *read* what you posted?
It tells you all you need to know.
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