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: <20050609181612.451.qmail@web25206.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:16:12 +0100 (BST) From: Roy Wiseman Subject: RE: passwd & group file problems ? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, but ... well, Ghost2003 is actually very impressive most of the time (apart from breaking cygwin which is a big problem of course). ok, I've fixed symantec by taking out the 2 " in the path and I fixed the cygwin1.dll (it was a copy of testdisk that was in there. testdisk carries it's own old version of cygwin1.dll around with it) then I did the mkpasswd and mkgroup stuff as you suggested ... and this is what I got, but I've no idea what tee it telling me (now I'm on my home system which is non domain, my office ABN Amro system is all the EMEA\nlwiso stuff). This is a lot confusing to me, do you understand this output ? oh, after this, I still get the same error unfortunately. C:\cygwin>cygwin Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. Boss AT raid ~ $ mkpasswd -d -l | tee /etc/passwd mkpasswd (731): [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain. SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-RAID\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1275210 071-1604221776-725345543-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash ASPNET:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:ASP.NET Machine Account,U-RAID\ASPNET,S-1-5 -21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1004:/home/ASPNET:/bin/bash Boss:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-RAID\Boss,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72 5345543-1003:/home/Boss:/bin/bash eric:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1005:513:U-RAID\eric,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72 5345543-1005:/home/eric:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-RAID\Guest,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-7 25345543-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Accoun t,U-RAID\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1000:/home/HelpA ssistant:/bin/bash SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmon d,S=Washington,C=US,U-RAID\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72534 5543-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash __ra_ssh_privsep__:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1008:513:RemotelyAnywhere SSH Privilege Separation User,U-RAID\__ra_ssh_privsep__,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-7253455 43-1008:/home/__ra_ssh_privsep__:/bin/bash __vmware_user__:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1007:513:__vmware_user__,U-RAID\__vmware_us er__,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1007:/home/__vmware_user__:/bin/ba sh Boss AT raid ~ $ mkpasswd -l | tee /etc/passwd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-RAID\Administrator,S-1-5-21-1275210 071-1604221776-725345543-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash ASPNET:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:ASP.NET Machine Account,U-RAID\ASPNET,S-1-5 -21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1004:/home/ASPNET:/bin/bash Boss:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-RAID\Boss,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72 5345543-1003:/home/Boss:/bin/bash eric:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1005:513:U-RAID\eric,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72 5345543-1005:/home/eric:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-RAID\Guest,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-7 25345543-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash HelpAssistant:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:Remote Desktop Help Assistant Accoun t,U-RAID\HelpAssistant,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1000:/home/HelpA ssistant:/bin/bash SUPPORT_388945a0:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:CN=Microsoft Corporation,L=Redmon d,S=Washington,C=US,U-RAID\SUPPORT_388945a0,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-72534 5543-1002:/home/SUPPORT_388945a0:/bin/bash __ra_ssh_privsep__:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1008:513:RemotelyAnywhere SSH Privilege Separation User,U-RAID\__ra_ssh_privsep__,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-7253455 43-1008:/home/__ra_ssh_privsep__:/bin/bash __vmware_user__:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1007:513:__vmware_user__,U-RAID\__vmware_us er__,S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1007:/home/__vmware_user__:/bin/ba sh Boss AT raid ~ $ mkgroup -l | tee /etc/passwd SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551: Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556: Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547: Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555: Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552: Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1001:1001: __vmware__:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1006:1006: Boss AT raid ~ $ mkgroup -l -d | tee /etc/passwd Cannot get PDC, code = 2453 SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: None:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-513:513: Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: Backup Operators:S-1-5-32-551:551: Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546: Network Configuration Operators:S-1-5-32-556:556: Power Users:S-1-5-32-547:547: Remote Desktop Users:S-1-5-32-555:555: Replicator:S-1-5-32-552:552: Users:S-1-5-32-545:545: HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1001:1001: __vmware__:S-1-5-21-1275210071-1604221776-725345543-1006:1006: Boss AT raid ~ --- Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Igor Pechtchanski > >Sent: 09 June 2005 18:09 > > > > likely to bite you at some point soon. Secondly, > some application > > (presumably Norton Ghost) has inserted a quoted > string into your PATH, > > which confuses Cygwin. Remove the quotes from the > PATH. > > At this point, I'd just like to say > ${DAVEK_ANTI_NORTON_RANT}, and > furthermore, > ${DAVEK_ANTI_SYMANTEC_RANT:-${DAVEK_ANTI_NORTON_RANT//NORTON/SYMANTEC}}, > while of course it is also true that > ${DAVEK_ANTI_MCAFEE_RANT:-${DAVEK_ANTI_SYMANTEC_RANT//SYMANTEC/MCAFEE}}. > > > Also, as your cygcheck output shows, you are in a > domain. It's quite > > possible that the domain controller really is > taking more than 30 minutes > > to return the set of users and groups (for large > domains). The "-u"/"-g" > > options of mkpasswd/mkgroup respectively may be > helpful. > > Or indeed running it in such a way that the > redirection doesn't prevent > you from seeing what's going on, such as: > > mkpasswd -d -l | tee /etc/passwd > > which will let you see it spitting out entries > one-by-one as the server > sends responses. > > > You could try running "net user nlwiso" to find > out the group membership > > (though I'm not certain how to ensure that the > user being queried is > > EMEA\nlwiso); > > "net user EMEA\nlwiso". It's pretty universal in > 'doze that wherever you > can put a username, you can put a DOMAIN\user string > instead. > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > > -- > 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/ > > ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.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/