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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:10:50 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	"cygwin AT cygwin. Com (E-mail)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Untangling security - W2K on NT domain
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In-Reply-To:	<01C1118C.52B6F460.jorgens@coho.net>; from jorgens@coho.net on Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:24:40AM -0700

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:24:40AM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> Scenario:
> 
> Installed on a Windows 2K workstation and member of an NT 4 domain.
> 
> Using an account on the domain added to Administrators group on 
> workstation, but merely a regular user on the domain.
> 
> 
> Problem:
> 
> In the groups file, 513 is "None".  I thought that was only supposed to 
> happen on a workgroup system.

On set `mkpasswd' is only called with -l option. Call it again
using the -d option.

> Untarring files with tar -xvzf fails miserably (as same user as described 
> above).  Permissions are set wrong on new directories, and extract fails on 
> files destined for those directories because of inadequate permissions.
> 
> It would seem that I need to fix my /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files, 
> but I don't understand them well enough to know what to do.  What do I need 
> to do here

Call mkpasswd and mkgroup without options. That should give you a clue.
And calling them with options isn't dangerous at all since they both
write to stdout. A little disposition to play is very helpful sometimes.

Corinna

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