X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-BigFish: V X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 204.180.196.11;Service: EHS Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C304BA3585@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com> From: "Long, Phillip GOSS" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l6AMVH6q015876 Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >"Long, Phillip GOSS" wrote in >message >news:rna >tional.com>... >>Maybe if U map a drive to a share on a machine in the neopath domain >>using a neopath domain account, the security token your process gets [snip] >When I first ran into this, I had already used Windows Explorer to >map a >drive letter to a file server in the non-trusted domain. However, >"mkpasswd" did not use that existing SMB session. Instead it was [snip] I did a little poking around in old '.bash_history' files, and if what I found combined with my memory (always questionable!) is accurate, what I did was to use 'runas' in a CMD window to log on as the user in the other (untrusted, IIRC) domain and run 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' from there, with the output re-directed to a temporary file. The accounts from there can then be added to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. It's not much, but HTH! -------------------------------------------------------- Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. -- 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/