Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

Wed Aug 20 03:32:00 GMT 2003

Matt Raible <matt_raible@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I couldn't find the
> solution in the archives.
>> I've been using Cygwin for a few years now, and the install has always worked
> great. Today I started getting the following error when I installed it (at my
> new job):
>> Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>> 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)
>> In /etc/group, I have:
>> mkgroup_l_d:S-1-5-21-3941461891-1737259440-******-513:10513:

This is an indication that you need to run `mkgroup -l` (or `-ld' if your a
domain user). If you really don't need ntsec (or ntea) support, then I suppose
you don't need to worry about this. It's there because this is the cause of
some common Cygwin problems.
> [...] 
> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible) GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
>> C:\Tools\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
> UID: 11187(mraible) GID: 10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> 544(Administrators) 547(Power Users)
> 545(Users) 10513(mkgroup_l_d)

-- Elfyn
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