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Date:	Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:33:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: UID not correct - not getting domain's UID
In-Reply-To:	<dfo396$8d5$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.4.63.0509072129480.11417@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do
> mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc.
> However when I start a bash shell id returns:
>
> $ id
> uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users)
> groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),38018(CTXSJCA),28526(dept-6700),10513(#Domain Users),401(Domain Users),37324(Exceed8),75030(IRV-bsehwdsl),66771(IRVA630XChina),66772(IRVA630XChinaBSE)
>
> Yet if I do:
>
> $ mkpasswd -d -u adefaria
> ADEFARIA:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:100260:10513:Andrew DeFaria,U-BROADCOM\ADEFARIA,S-1-5-21-1039729616-1467765255-1947940980-90260:/home:/bin/bash
>
> As you can see my UID from the domain controler is 100260 and GID is 10513.
> Why is id returning 400 and 401?

I believe cygwin finds the first record in /etc/passwd that matches a
given username.  So try reordering them.  Same with /etc/group and "Domain
Users".  I don't recall whether the usernames are case-sensitive -- so the
all-caps on your domain username may be a red herring.

HTH,
	Igor
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