Re: Install battle over, how to set up user?

[waxmop at sarcastic-horse dot com]

Ok, I ran cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out, and I attached the
cygcheck.out file to this email.




> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 waxmop@sarcastic-horse.com wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of
>> packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list.  Thanks
>> a
>> lot to all of you.
>>
>> So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen
>> above the bash prompt:
>>
>>     Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.
>>     This typically happens if you are a domain user
>>     (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or
>>     /etc/group for domain users)
>>
>> What should I do here?  Is there such a thing as a 'root' account and
>> user
>> accounts?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Please read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the bit about
> attaching (as in 'uncompressed text *attachment*') the output of "cygcheck
> -svr".
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