On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:19:35PM -0400, Keith Mitchell wrote: >Problem: Virgin Installs of CygWin on Windows XP work fine but a total >purge (deletion of all CygWin files and directories) and a fresh >reinstall with different set of usernames do not work properly, i.e., >usernames that have been CHANGED using the XP user manager to new >usernames. This problem occurred as a result of my changing all my >usernames with spaces to usernames without spaces to make them Linux >compatible. > >I wanted to thank all for the responses. After many reinstallations of >CygWin, I finally identified the problem and got things working. This is >just a bug report documenting my discoveries and what I believe is going on. > >1. A virgin install of CygWin makes a list of all user names on the >system. This list is reflected in /etc/passwd after any reinstall. I am >guessing this list is stored in the Windows XP registry as this list >does not exist on the drive where CygWin is installed, in my case, the D >drive. This list is NEVER updated on subsequent CygWin installs. This is >the REAL problem: no updates on subsequent installs.
Just in case it isn't clear: *Cygwin* does not store a list of usernames in the registry. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/