X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_MK,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Orion Poplawski Subject: mkpasswd with domain gives The security database is corrupted error Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Fresh install of cygwin 1.7.16 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Trying to add my domain users to /etc/passwd, but when I run mkpasswd I get (somewhat obfuscated): $ mkpasswd -l -d CO-RA SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: TrustedInstaller:*:4294967294:4294967294:U-NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller,S-*:: Administrator:unused:500:513:U-FONT3\Administrator,S-* Guest:unused:501:513:U-FONT3\Guest,S-*:/home/Guest:/bin/bash sgeadmin:unused:1000:513:U-FONT3\sgeadmin,S-*:/home/sgeadmin:/bin/bash mkpasswd (374): [2247] The security database is corrupted. That message led me to trying to check the status to the secedit.sdb database with esentutl but that checks out okay. Any ideas? TIA, Orion Poplawski -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple