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: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:39:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Latest Install - Domain account - File permisssions Message-ID: <20010913213916.J20079@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from spluess@sanmateocourt.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:53:34AM -0700 On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:53:34AM -0700, Serge Pluess wrote: > Hi > > I just downloaded the latest setup.exe and wiped off my old installation first. This is on Windows 2000 Server > > The setup and download finish and when i double click on the Cygwin Icon on my desktop I now get the following output: > > "...mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied > bash: cd: /home/spluess: No such file or directory > > spluess@COURTNET /usr/bin > $ ..." > > With last weeks setup.exe this didn't happen. > > I ran the install while I am logged in through my NT4 domain account which has administrative rights and I think at the end of the setup.exe I see a shell popup that runs mkpasswd with the -l option. I look at /etc/passwd and there is an entry there for my local account I think: > > spluess:This_field_is_not_used_by_cygwin_on_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:Serge Pluess,S-1-5-21-484763869-764733703-682003330-1006:/home/spluess:/bin/bash > > So I am thinking, let me try to run mkpasswd -d but to my suprise it only lists the first 12 entries of the domain list (which is still in the a's) and for thus I cannot get the list to include my account information (which is in the s's). There are about 300 users in the domain. Are you logged on using a local user account of that machine, say, Administrator or so? If you want to ask for the list of domain users you have to be a user of the domain. 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/