Domain User getting "Permission Denied" for anything outside of /home/<user>/

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/2/2012 12:41 PM, Cameron Gunnin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been struggling with this for the past week to no avail.  As the
> title suggests, if I am logged in under a user that is not the user
> who installed Cygwin (regardless of the user's windows permissions),
> then I cannot modify near anything outside of /home/<user>/.  Here's
> what I'm trying to get working.
>
> 1a) Install Cygwin as a Local Administrator.  Run "mkpasswd -l >
> /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -l > /etc/group"

Why are you running mkpasswd and mkgroup yourself?  passwd-grp.sh
postinstall script runs this for you, including adding a '-c'
flag to pick up the local user.

> OR (I would prefer 1a, but 1b is acceptable as well)
> 1b) Install Cygwin as Domain Administrator.  Run "mkpasswd -d >
> /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -d > /etc/group"
>
> 2) Login as Domain User (has administrative privileges on local
> machine AND can access the AD).
> NOTE: At this point, I get the message:
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that your
> gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd.
>
> 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.
>
> 3) Attempt to run "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -d >> /etc/group"
> However, I get the message:
>
> $ mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd
> -sh: /etc/passwd: Permission Denied

Run it as the local or domain administrator that you used while installing.


-- 
Larry

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