Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:10:50 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Untangling security - W2K on NT domain Message-ID: <20010722101050.B629@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: "cygwin@cygwin. Com (E-mail)" References: <01C1118C.52B6F460.jorgens@coho.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/