When you first install cygwin and run bash, it’ll usually display this error message:
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.
If you happen to be in a corporate environment with a huge active directory, then the mkpasswd(1) command can take a very long time. A quicker way to fix this issue (provided only the current user uses cygwin on this machine, which is most likely) is to issue this command instead:
mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd; mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group
The mkgroup(1) command will still take a few minutes to complete, but typically there are much fewer groups than users, so it’s bearable.
mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd; mkgroup -l -d > /etc/passwd
Fehler: copy paste bei mkgroup es muß natürlich
/etc/group heißen nicht /etc/passwd
Es handelt sich also um ungetesteter code. Bitte nicht
benutzen.
Gruß
Dietmar.
If you arent Domain user and use Cygwin only localy
the right way is:
mkpasswd -l -p /home/ -c > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l -c > /etc/group
use the -p option otherwise you will find your home
in the deep stack of shit within windows. Nothing will
work again and your children will cry.
Thanks Feherfind, now I know why
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You might want to direct output from mkgroup to /etc/group rather than /etc/passwd…
Indeed! Thank’s Josh, updated
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Thanks very much, everyone — I was considering giving up!
hi all
I ran the following command after updating cyqwin
mkpasswd -l -p /home/ -c > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l -c > /etc/group
The problem now is that I cannot access shared libraries for NS2 simulator in different users settings how can i solve this I need different ns versions on different users
Thanks
Thanks so much for posting this, I had been searching forever and unable to fix this problem until I found this site.
What about domain users who are working remotely and aren’t connected to the local network their company’s active directory server is on?
The mkgroup -l -c command gives an error message: mkgroup (195): [1789] The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.
Yes I’m currently in the same boat
Assuming that you have some sort of VPN to the company, it should work, although if it is working for me, it’s very, very slow (HP has a huge directory). I’ve given up waiting for it and will probably run this command when next I’m in the office. However I understand that’s a cop-out…
I ran mkgroup -d at work. It took over 3 hours and still I ended up with my group being “mkgroup”. I ended up doing this:
mkgroup -l > /etc/group
mkgroup -c >> /etc/group
which seems to have fixed for my current situation (cygwin 1.7 on Vista)
Hi,
I am a newbie to Cygwin. I have installed the complete package of cygwin. Is there a possbility to access my unix server partitions directly using cygwin’s bash shell from windows ?
@Karthik: I am not sure how you mean “access my unix server partitions directly”.
Do you mean you have a dual-boot PC and want to access the Unix disc partitions from within Windows/cygwin? Cygwin doesn’t do this, but if your flavour of Unix partitions is ext2fs or later, there are Windows ext2fs drivers
Do you mean, you have a second computer that runs Unix and you want to access it’s filesystem to browse in Windows/cygwin? You can
sshto the Unix box from within bash (ssh user@server_address). Better would probably be to use Cygwin’s setup tool to install midnight commander for cygwin and then use the fish protocol from within mc:cd /#sh:user@server_address/directoryPerfect. Thanks.