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 X-Sent: 14 Feb 2004 17:34:11 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Jeremy AT Gagliardi DOT com Subject: "incorrect password" or "permission denied" when switching users X-Sent-From: jeremy AT gagliardi DOT com Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:34:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20040214093410.29422.h012.c000.wm@mail.gagliardi.com.criticalpath.net> Installed straight off the Internet... Owner AT Beast / $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Beast 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin I am running XP Home edition, and my administrative account is "Owner". I try to switch users. `su - jjg` causes "incorrect password" message, and `login -f jjg` reveals "login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied" When I do `strace login` I get this juicy message: 360 12676481 [main] login 1324 geterrno_from_win_error: unknown windows error 1314, setting errno to 13 218 12676699 [main] login 1324 spawn_guts: CreateProcess failed, Win32 error 1314 Here are the specifics: On XP, the users are as follows: Owner - Computer administrator jjg - Computer administrator - Password Protected sshd - Limited account - Password Protected Guest - Guest account is off In Cygwin: Owner AT Beast / $ cat /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:545:U-BEAST\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-500:/home/Admi nistrator:/bin/bash cron:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:cron,U-BEAST\cron,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1006:/home/cron:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-BEAST\Guest,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1005:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Account,U-BEAST\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-1615061 138-891307005-2424629274-1005:/home/HelpAssistant:/bin/bash jjg:*:1010:545:Jeremy Gagliardi,U-BEAST\jjg,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1010:/home/jjg:/bin/bash Owner:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:545:U-BEAST\Owner,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1003:/home/Owner:/bin/bash sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1007:513:sshd,U-BEAST\sshd,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1007:/home/sshd:/bin/bash SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US,U-BEAST\SUPPORT_3889 45a0,S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash SUPPORT_fddfa904:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:CN=Hewlett-Packard,L=Cupertino,S=Ca,C=US,U-BEAST\SUPPORT_fddfa904,S-1-5-2 1-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1004:/home/SUPPORT_fddfa904:/bin/bash Owner AT Beast / $ cat /etc/group root:S-1-5-32-544:0: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-1615061138-891307005-2424629274-1001:1001: Owner AT Beast / $ ls -ld /home drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Owner Users 0 Feb 12 21:18 /home Owner AT Beast / $ ls -l /home total 0 drwx------+ 3 Owner Users 0 Feb 14 10:48 Owner drwx------+ 2 jjg Users 0 Feb 12 20:21 jjg Owner AT Beast / $ ls -ld /etc/passwd /etc/group /bin /bin/bash /bin/bash.exe drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Owner Users 0 Feb 12 21:23 /bin -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Owner Users 527360 Oct 20 08:12 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Owner Users 527360 Oct 20 08:12 /bin/bash.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Users 248 Feb 12 20:59 /etc/group -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Users 1369 Feb 14 11:38 /etc/passwd I have been a Solaris administrator for 10 years, but have never used Cygwin. Cygwin seems like a foreign language to me. Please help. Why are the most basic forms of login not working with a "standard" installation of Cygwin? Better question: How can I get login or su to work? Even better question: How can I switch users? (---------------------------) mailto:Jeremy AT Gagliardi DOT com http://Jeremy.Gagliardi.com (---------------------------) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/