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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>, "Peter Canning" <canning@vitria.com>
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Subject: Re: mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:16:52 -0000
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> I have been unable to successfully run mkpasswd -d since our corporation
> upgraded to MS Exchange 2000.  When I run
>      mkpasswd -d
> I get the following output
>      SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
>      Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>      mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
>
> I suspect this is caused by some problem with the configuration of the
> domain controller, but I don't know enough about domain controllers to
> guess any more than that.
> The problem is preventing me from using sash to log in remotely to my
machine.
>
> I've attached the output of running
>      strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> to this message.  I have been unable to interpret this output enough to
> figure out what is causing the problem.  If anyone can figure out what is
> causing the problem, and suggest what might be done to fix it, I would be
> grateful.


Can you provide strace output from when you are running `mkpasswd -d'? As
what you provided was for a command that worked (?).


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk


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