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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: UID not correct - not getting domain's UID Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:51:56 -0700 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do >> mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc. >> However when I start a bash shell id returns: >> >> $ id >> uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users) >> groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),38018(CTXSJCA),28526(dept-6700),10513(#Domain >> Users),401(Domain >> Users),37324(Exceed8),75030(IRV-bsehwdsl),66771(IRVA630XChina),66772(IRVA630XChinaBSE) >> >> >> Yet if I do: >> >> $ mkpasswd -d -u adefaria >> ADEFARIA:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:100260:10513:Andrew >> DeFaria,U-BROADCOM\ADEFARIA,S-1-5-21-1039729616-1467765255-1947940980-90260:/home:/bin/bash >> >> >> As you can see my UID from the domain controler is 100260 and GID is >> 10513. >> Why is id returning 400 and 401? > > I believe cygwin finds the first record in /etc/passwd that matches a > given username. So try reordering them. Same with /etc/group and > "Domain Users". I don't recall whether the usernames are > case-sensitive -- so the all-caps on your domain username may be a red > herring. Argh! You're right. Good catch. What happened is I was doing a mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd and it appeared to be hanging. So I killed it and then did mkpasswd -d -u adefaria >> /etc/passwd. Unfortunately this put my entry at the end of the last partially written line! Thus I was not found! I've corrected this. Thanks. -- Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? -- 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/