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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