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Re: Permissions problems after domain change


mwoehlke wrote:
Chuck wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Chuck wrote:
My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I
log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own
files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I
need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all
question marks when I do an "ls -l". Can anyone help me fix this? TIA.

$ ls -laF
total 64
drwx------+ 17 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Aug 15 10:21 ./
drwx------+  3 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Apr  6 17:10 ../
-rw-------   1 CHamilto Users         6998 Jul 13 09:50 .bash_history
-rw-------   1 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Oct  7  2004 .ICEauthority
-rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users   354 Oct  7  2004 .XSM-Default
-rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users    93 Oct 11  2004 .Xdefaults
[snipped]
drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Aug 15 12:28 .keychain/
drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Jul 26 09:12 .ssh/

Looks to me like you just need to recreate your '/etc/group' and '/etc/passwd' files. Try:

mkpasswd -l -d >/etc/passwd
mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group

If this takes too long, look at the -D flag for each so you can specify
the domain.



Doesn't seem like my versions of these commands support the -D option.


$ mkpasswd -l -D
mkpasswd: unknown option -- D
Try 'mkpasswd --help' for more information.

$ mkgroup -l -D
mkgroup: unknown option -- D
Try 'mkgroup --help' for more information.

Did you try 'man mkpasswd'? It looks like the correct syntax is 'mkpasswd -l -d [<domain> ...]'




Right.  Sorry folks.  I'm away from my Windows machine so I'm doing this
from memory.  The "-d" alone works though.  I only mentioned adding the
domain name as an option in case your domains are huge and/or you have
ones that are now unreachable.


-- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746

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