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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:40:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Latest Install - Domain account - File permisssions
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In-Reply-To: <3BA62542.4060807@likai.net>; from news@likai.net on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0400

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:00:38AM -0700, Serge Pluess wrote:
> >
> >>Hi there
> >>
> >>yep, The machine is part of that domain, I am logging in as a member of the domain and this is the only domain we have. 
> >>
> >>Both commands end up with the same results:
> >>
> >>mkpasswd -d
> >>mkpasswd -d mydomain
> >>
> >>One thing I have noticed is that there are 12 entries for the local accounts for the machine. It seems that the mkpasswd -d is starting getting the right users, but stops after reaching the count of the local entries.
> >>
> >
> >Sounds pretty unlikely since getting local vs. global accounts are
> >different functions in mkpasswd.  I have performed three checks with
> >domains with 13, 141 and 632 users and mkpasswd worked as expected.
> >
> >You will have to debug that problem since you seem to be the only
> >person with that problem so far.
> >
> >Corinna
> >
> i also noticed that (with local accounts), mkpasswd outputs the users 
> with wrong group id. all user's group is set to 513, which when shown 
> from mkpasswd -g (or mkgroup), is a None group. fortunately i just had 
> to manually edit all 4 users and that's all i need to do. isn't this 
> observation interesting?

Not really.  It's the expected behaviour since domainless machines
don't support the concept of settable primary groups as it's on
U*X and in NT domains.  Therefore all users have the fixed primary
group of 513 = None on domainless machines.  Unless you're using
ntsec in Cygwin of course ;-)

Corinna

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