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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.


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