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Re: Cygwin 1.7 domains and home directories


On Dec 12 10:20, John Morrison wrote:
> On Thu, December 11, 2008 5:42 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> Now, *sometimes* when I
> >> start cygwin (via the standard batch file) I get ~ to be my
> >> "c:\Documents
> >> and Settings\[user]\" and othertimes it all works and ~ is /home/morrijr
> >> which is mounted to "d:\Wrkfile".  I've not be able to workout when or
> >> why.
> >>
> >> When it doesn't honor the path in my passwd file it also comes up with
> >> the
> >>
> >> "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."
> >>
> >> message.
> >
> > John, thanks for reporting this.  I also have this problem in Cygwin 1.7,
> > ever since I installed it.  The problem does not occur in Cygwin 1.5.
> >
> >> Note that the group file is *very* big (IMO) 6505 entries!  There's only
> >> local users and my domain account in my passwd file (16 entries).
> >
> > I am also in a domain.  There are 20,300 entries in /etc/passwd, and
> > 22,269 in /etc/group.
> >
> >> Can anyone suggest anything I can try either to fix or more reliably
> >> reproduce the problem?
> >
> > Here's what I've been able to figure out about it:
> >
> > The error happens the first time I open a Cygwin 1.7 console after each
> > reboot.
> > On the 2nd and subsequent times after a reboot, bash starts without error
> > and finds my correct $HOME.  I can log out and log back in, and the next
> > console will open without error.  Reboot, start a console, and I get the
> > error again.
> >
> > Does that also happen to you?  A clue for sure, though I have no idea
> > where it's pointing.
> 
> Agreed, it happens the first run, but, I just updated my OpenSsh package
> and *that* broke it once.  Close the broken terminal and launch another
> and no problems...  However reinstalling OpenSsh doesn't result in a
> broken terminal. :(

I don't think that has to do with the size of the /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files.  Not sure if I can work on that before the christmas
break, though...


Corinna

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