Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/05/13/13:08:22
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 13 11:49, Schutter, Thomas A. wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > Except that is not what I am seeing. When I run "id" from a
> console
> > > > cygwin shell:
> > > > $ id
> > > > uid=18718(tschutter) gid=10513(Domain Users)
> > > > groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(Domain
> > > > Users),18169(FDSV-GG-PrxBLD),22611(FDSV-GG-PrxPCAdmins)
> > > >
> > > > But when I run "id" from a ssh shell:
> > > > $ id
> > > > uid=18718(tschutter) gid=10513(Domain Users)
> > > > groups=545(Users),10513(Domain Users)
> > > >
> > > > So when I am using pubkey authentication, the user token is not
a
> > > member
> > > > of the "Administrators", "FDSV-GG-PrxBLD", or "FDSV-GG-
> PrxPCAdmins"
> > > > groups.
> > >
> > > That wasn't what I was talking about. I was just referring to the
> > > assertion that Windows doesn't know about user impersonation or
> > > user switching.
> > >
> > > As for your user token, Cygwin tries to get information about the
> user
> > > by asking the local machine what local and global groups the user
> is
> > > member in. Some local groups are only in the user's group list,
> > > because
> > > one of the global grouyps is in turn member of a local group,
which
> is
> > > probably the case for the Admin's group. For some reason your
> local
> > > machine doesn't return any of the information about the global
> domain
> > > groups your user is member in. Possible reasons are that
> retrieving
> > > the
> > > PDC for the user's domain fails, or that the PDC refuses to list
> the
> > > user's groups for some reason. That's something you would have to
> > > debug
> > > in your local installation.
> >
> > Ahh. From my original email from a console cygwin shell:
> > $ echo $USERDOMAIN
> > FLOODDATA
> >
> > But when I login via ssh:
> > $ echo $USERDOMAIN
> > FDSVBLD01SGRAPE
> >
> > So when I login via ssh, the USERDOMAIN is set to the local machine
> > rather than the domain. So I would suspect that the PDC is not even
> > being queried.
>
> You're jumping to conclusions. The reason why USERNAME and USERDOMAIN
> are wrong I explained in my first reply. Both values don't matter
when
> Cygwin tries to connect to the PDC, as long as the /etc/passwd
pw_gecos
> field contains a valid U-DOMAIN\username entry. This information is
> used to connect to the PDC.
>
>
> Corinna
OK. My /etc/passwd file was generated with the "mkpasswd -l -d"
command.
The /etc/passwd pw_gecos field for tschutter is just
"U-FLOODDATA\tschutter". So what debugging step can I take next?
--
Tom Schutter
First American - Proxix Solutions
(512) 977-6822
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