> The strace output I provided was for a command that failed. I just forgot
> to mention that running
> strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> produces the following message:
> mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied
> as well as producing the strace output in the file that I attached to my
> original message.
>
> - Peter Canning
>
> At 03:16 PM 2/14/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > > I have been unable to successfully run mkpasswd -d since our
corporation
> > > upgraded to MS Exchange 2000. When I run
> > > mkpasswd -d
From the above ^^^^^^^^^^^^ (mkpasswd -d) I thought you meant it was that
exact command that was failing and not `mkpasswd -u canning -d', which from
the output below it would look that way as it was printing more than just
your user information.
> > > I get the following output
> > > SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> > > Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> > > mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
> > >
> > > I suspect this is caused by some problem with the configuration of the
> > > domain controller, but I don't know enough about domain controllers to
> > > guess any more than that.
> > > The problem is preventing me from using sash to log in remotely to my
> >machine.
> > >
> > > I've attached the output of running
> > > strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> > > to this message. I have been unable to interpret this output enough
to
> > > figure out what is causing the problem. If anyone can figure out what
is
> > > causing the problem, and suggest what might be done to fix it, I would
be
> > > grateful.
> >
> >
> >Can you provide strace output from when you are running `mkpasswd -d'? As
> >what you provided was for a command that worked (?).
What user are you running mkpasswd as? If not Administrator, can you run it
as Administrator?
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn at exposure dot org dot uk
www.exposure.org.uk