Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050518165517.09f76ab0@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:03:43 -0400 To: "Robb, Sam" , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures In-Reply-To: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D03E04FC8@exchange.timesys. com> References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D03E04FC8@exchange.timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? Yes, this has come up before, though I couldn't find a pointer either. The username/id of the user currently logged into Windows must be a domain user to be able to successfully use the '-d' flags. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/