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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2014-07-30 15:07:34 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2014-07-30 15:07:34 +0400 |
| commit | f092b3ddf3a68f7f9ad77edf0571911e46da0246 (patch) | |
| tree | 2df8c160832d65e28f0e3acd9f95f03920ae98a5 /winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | |
| parent | db0378d50fccff728bce8cec70e98b5d55a1e1ad (diff) | |
* cygwin.xsl: Allow 3 section levels in TOC.
* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7.32): Add new section.
* ntsec.xml: Rename top-level section to reflect extension of topics.
Remove old /etc/passwd, /etc/group considerations. Add new sections
explaining Windows to POSIX account mapping. Make setuid sections
third level sections.
* pathnames.xml: Note new method of account mapping for fstab.d/$USER.
* faq-setup.xml: Rework references to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to
reflect changes to account handling.
* faq-using.xml: Ditto.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/faq-using.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index 19e381624..1b83ef950 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ as such. <para>Your .bashrc is read from your home directory specified by the HOME environment variable. It uses /.bashrc if HOME is not set. So you need -to set HOME (and the home dir in your /etc/passwd entry) correctly. +to set HOME (and the home dir in your passwd account information) correctly. </para> </answer></qandaentry> @@ -265,12 +265,6 @@ must create the whatis database. Just run the command <question><para>Why doesn't <literal>chmod</literal> work?</para></question> <answer> -<para>The most common case is that your <literal>/etc/passwd</literal> -or <literal>/etc/group</literal> files are not properly set up. If -<literal>ls -l</literal> shows a group of <literal>mkpasswd</literal> -or <literal>mkgroup</literal>, you need to run one or both of those -commands. -</para> <para>If you're using FAT32 instead of NTFS, <literal>chmod</literal> will fail since FAT32 does not provide any permission information. You should really consider converting the drive to NTFS with @@ -1032,19 +1026,6 @@ sure you're running bash elevated. </para> <para> -If "cyg_server" is not already in <literal>/etc/passwd</literal>, add it -using <literal>mkpasswd</literal>. Make sure all domain accounts which are -supposed to be able to logon via ssh are in <literal>/etc/passwd</literal>. -Also make sure that all important domain groups are in -<literal>/etc/group</literal>. If in doubt, call -</para> - -<screen> - $ mkpasswd -l -d your_domain > /etc/passwd - $ mkgroup -l -d your_domain > /etc/group -</screen> - -<para> Then run ssh-host-config. Answer all questions so that "cyg_server" is used to run the service. When done, check ownership of <literal>/var/empty</literal> and all <literal>/etc/ssh*</literal> |