X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:22:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] passwd: useless if used with a logged on domain user Message-ID: <20090322192205.GH9322@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090321101004.GU9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090322100907.GA9322@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 On Mar 22 17:34, J?lio Costa wrote: > ~ $ # Just typed Ctrl-C. Not in the mood right now :) > ~ $ # And now for the interesting part: > ~ $ ./my_passwd.exe -S SYSTEM > my_passwd: unknown user SYSTEM The SYSTEM user is not in the user database. So that's an expected result. > ~ $ # Ooops. And what about > ~ $ ./my_passwd.exe -S Administrator > You have no maintenance privileges. I can't reproduce this one, but maybe that's just a different case of the same as this one: > ~ $ # Ouch. If I may insist: > ~ $ ./my_passwd.exe -d $HOSTNAME -S Administrator > my_passwd: unknown user security I applied another fix to passwd to decouple the logonserver for fetching the user info for the running user account from the user info for the user account which is going to be manipulated by passwd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/