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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:39:16 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Latest Install - Domain account - File permisssions
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In-Reply-To: <sba090c8.041@co.sanmateo.ca.us>; from spluess@sanmateocourt.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:53:34AM -0700

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:53:34AM -0700, Serge Pluess wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just downloaded the latest setup.exe and wiped off my old installation first. This is on Windows 2000 Server
> 
> The setup and download finish and when i double click on the Cygwin Icon on my desktop I now get the following output:
> 
> "...mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied
> bash: cd: /home/spluess: No such file or directory
> 
> spluess AT COURTNET /usr/bin
> $ ..."
> 
> With last weeks setup.exe this didn't happen.
> 
> I ran the install while I am logged in through my NT4 domain account which has administrative rights and I think at the end of the setup.exe I see a shell popup that runs mkpasswd with the -l option. I look at /etc/passwd and there is an entry there for my local account I think:
> 
> spluess:This_field_is_not_used_by_cygwin_on_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:Serge Pluess,S-1-5-21-484763869-764733703-682003330-1006:/home/spluess:/bin/bash
> 
> So I am thinking, let me try to run mkpasswd -d but to my suprise it only lists the first 12 entries of the domain list (which is still in the a's) and for thus I cannot get the list to include my account information (which is in the s's). There are about 300 users in the domain.


Are you logged on using a local user account of that machine, say,
Administrator or so?  If you want to ask for the list of domain users
you have to be a user of the domain.

Corinna

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