Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <039a01c2d47f$29d1b6e0$ab7886d9@webdev> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Peter Canning" References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20030214150258 DOT 00a99498 AT vt-sjc-ems1 DOT vitria DOT ad DOT vitriacorp DOT com> Subject: Re: mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied. Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:16:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > I have been unable to successfully run mkpasswd -d since our corporation > upgraded to MS Exchange 2000. When I run > mkpasswd -d > I get the following output > SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: > Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: > mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied. > > I suspect this is caused by some problem with the configuration of the > domain controller, but I don't know enough about domain controllers to > guess any more than that. > The problem is preventing me from using sash to log in remotely to my machine. > > I've attached the output of running > strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d > to this message. I have been unable to interpret this output enough to > figure out what is causing the problem. If anyone can figure out what is > causing the problem, and suggest what might be done to fix it, I would be > grateful. Can you provide strace output from when you are running `mkpasswd -d'? As what you provided was for a command that worked (?). Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/