Permissions problems after domain change
Chuck
skilover@bluebottle.com
Tue Aug 15 20:51:00 GMT 2006
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Doesn't seem like my versions of these commands support the -D option.
$ mkpasswd -l -D
mkpasswd: unknown option -- D
Try 'mkpasswd --help' for more information.
$ mkgroup -l -D
mkgroup: unknown option -- D
Try 'mkgroup --help' for more information.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 CHamilto-DEL 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 14:21 i686 Cygwin
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