Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group passwd problem

2005-12-26 Thread Kyle S. Allender
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kyle S. Allender wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: mkpasswd -l -s /etc/passwd ^^ At a guess, here's your problem. This flag completely omits the SIDs from /etc/passwd. When you omit SIDs, there is no way for Cygwin to map your user

Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group passwd problem

2005-12-23 Thread Kyle S. Allender
Morning all. I am experiencing a problem with Cygwin @ startup. After having to do a rebuild on my local XP system, reinstalling Cygwin went fine until I encountered this message when starting the Cygwin environment: CreateFileandSetSecurity failed with FALSE (Expected on FAT Partitions) GLE:

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group passwd problem

2005-12-23 Thread Kyle S. Allender
Igor Peshansky wrote: mkpasswd -l -s /etc/passwd ^^ At a guess, here's your problem. This flag completely omits the SIDs from /etc/passwd. When you omit SIDs, there is no way for Cygwin to map your user id back to Windows security mechanisms, so any attempt to use ntsec

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group passwd problem

2005-12-23 Thread Kyle S. Allender
Igor Peshansky wrote: You said you get the same message for a bash shell? Could you please try to capture the output (by opening a CMD.EXE window and typing c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat)? Output follows: C:\Documents and Settings\kallenderc:\cygwin\cygwin.bat CreateFileandSetSecurity failed with