bad installation ?

Phil Betts Phil.Betts@heis.co.uk
Wed Mar 9 14:14:00 GMT 2005


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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