Erik Weibust wrote:
So yesterday when I installed cygwin I got an error about my group being mkgroup and that it should be rebuilt. It mentioned that if I am a network user I should use mkpasswd and mkgroup with the -d flag. What is this giving me over just saying mkpasswd -l? All I see is it creating massive passwd and group files.
It gathers information from the domain controller and adds it to these files. This should include all domain users and groups. This can be overkill but the good thing is that if it doesn't complain in the process or take way too long to generate, it just works.
Also, I saw that my home dir in my /etc/passwd is somewhere that doesn't exist on a network server. Can I safely just change it to a local /home/user dir?
Assign it to whatever you like. See the '-p' flag on 'mkpasswd'. Or just edit the '/etc/passwd' file afterward. Be careful not to change you user's SID info though.
Lastly, I see that some of my files have a group of Users and others have Domain Users, how can I easily set all my files to the same group? I literally just installed Cygwin, so I have no problem reinstalling to "get it right" from the beginning, if there is a better way to install Cygwin when you are on a domain.
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