Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:44:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh-host-config bug? Message-ID: <20040908084439.GA20537@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040908073318.1041A84C99@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040908073318.1041A84C99@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Sep 8 17:33, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > I noted recently that the user "system" seems to have vanished. > > > Likewise the user and the group SYSTEM no longer seem to exist. > > .... as evidenced by: > > $ chown system xxx > chown: `system': invalid user That's the problem. I don't know how it disappeared from your /etc/passwd, but `mkpasswd -l' always creates an entry for the user system. Just readd it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/