X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44E212E9.9060604@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:31:05 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Permissions problems after domain change References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Chuck wrote: > My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I > log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own > files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I > need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all > question marks when I do an "ls -l". Can anyone help me fix this? TIA. > > $ ls -laF > total 64 > drwx------+ 17 CHamilto Domain Users 0 Aug 15 10:21 ./ > drwx------+ 3 CHamilto Domain Users 0 Apr 6 17:10 ../ > -rw------- 1 CHamilto Users 6998 Jul 13 09:50 .bash_history > -rw------- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 0 Oct 7 2004 .ICEauthority > -rw-r--r-- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 354 Oct 7 2004 .XSM-Default > -rw-r--r-- 1 CHamilto Domain Users 93 Oct 11 2004 .Xdefaults > [snipped] > drwx------+ 2 CHamilto ???????? 0 Aug 15 12:28 .keychain/ > drwx------+ 2 CHamilto ???????? 0 Jul 26 09:12 .ssh/ Looks to me like you just need to recreate your '/etc/group' and '/etc/passwd' files. Try: mkpasswd -l -d >/etc/passwd mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group If this takes too long, look at the -D flag for each so you can specify the domain. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/