RE: xterm fails to start with "setuid failed: Permission denied"

[Florimon van Putte <florimon dot van dot putte at cmg dot nl>]

> Let me guess - you have logged in as a domain user, but your 
> home directory
> is /home/Administrator (or whatever the local administrator 
> is named in
> dutch...)

Thank god I'm using an English NT installation :))
Anyway - argh ! It works after all - after running the mkpasswd and mkgroup,
I hadn't exited my login shell. When I did and restarted it, I landed into
/home/fputte instead of /home/Administrator and now it works. Thanks for the
help !

rgds,
Florimon


> 
> It seems that cygwin is capable of seeing all domain users 
> and when running
> 'whoami' returns 'Administrator' instead of the domain user.
> 
> I would guess that you will have to create an account in /etc/passwd
> manually - the question is just how... - but I will guess 
> that you will
> have to find the SID of you domain user and add it to /etc/passwd.
> 
> Med venlig hilsen / Regards
> Franz Wolfhagen
> 
> 
> Florimon van Putte <florimon.van.putte@cmg.nl>@cygwin.com on 
> 26-06-2002
> 10:50:35
> 
> Please respond to Florimon van Putte <florimon.van.putte@cmg.nl>
> 
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> 
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> cc:
> Subject:    RE: xterm fails to start with "setuid failed: Permission
>        denied"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, I've done
> 
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l -u > /etc/group
> mkgroup -d -u >> /etc/group
> 
> but I keep having xterm die on me with "setuid failed: 
> Permission denied"
> ??
> 
> rgds,
> Florimon van Putte
> 
> 
> 
>