In an earlier post, John Morrison wrote: [...] > The way this is set has changed and *should* work ootb with a clean > installation. > > The easiest way (I believe) atm is to... > > $ cp /etc/group /etc/group.old > $ cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old > $ /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done > > this should recreate /etc/group and /etc/passwd (check before > closing!) Then close and restart cygwin. You should now > be your domain user *not* your local Admin. > > Also note that /etc/profile has changed, the new version > is kept as /etc/profile.default and should not overwrite any > previous copy. > > The functionality has changed slightly. It doesn't run > ~/.bashrc by default, as per specs it runs ~/.bash_profile > which should check and, if appropriate, run ~/.bashrc > > Feel free to change how this works - it is your system > afterall :)
Ah! Thanks for useful hints - now how do I get out of this 'None' group that I'm apparently in, and into 'Users' or even 'Administrators'? -- =========================================== Chris Game <chrisgame@!yahoo!dotcodotuk> =========================================== -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/