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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:25:37 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
Message-ID: <20030219212536.GA429315@worldnet>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Peter Canning wrote:
> I am running as a domain user that had administator privileges on my 
> computer.  I don't have access to an account that is a domain adminstrator.
> 
>         - Peter Canning
> 
> At 03:52 PM 2/14/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >> The strace output I provided was for a command that failed.  I just 
> >forgot
> >> to mention that running
> >>      strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> >> produces the following message:
> >>       mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied
> >> as well as producing the strace output in the file that I attached to my
> >> original message.
> >>

Have you tried creating the passwd file with "mkpasswd -l -c" ?
That's within your control. Obviously changing the access to the PDC
depends on your domain administrator.

Pierre


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