mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.

[Peter Canning]

I am running as a domain user that had administator privileges on my 
computer.  I don't have access to an account that is a domain adminstrator.

         - Peter Canning

At 03:52 PM 2/14/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > The strace output I provided was for a command that failed.  I just forgot
> > to mention that running
> >      strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> > produces the following message:
> >       mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied
> > as well as producing the strace output in the file that I attached to my
> > original message.
> >
> >          - Peter Canning
> >
> > At 03:16 PM 2/14/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > > > I have been unable to successfully run mkpasswd -d since our
>corporation
> > > > upgraded to MS Exchange 2000.  When I run
> > > >      mkpasswd -d
>
> From the above ^^^^^^^^^^^^ (mkpasswd -d) I thought you meant it was that
>exact command that was failing and not `mkpasswd -u canning -d', which from
>the output below it would look that way as it was printing more than just
>your user information.
>
> > > > I get the following output
> > > >      SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
> > > >      Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
> > > >      mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
> > > >
> > > > I suspect this is caused by some problem with the configuration of the
> > > > domain controller, but I don't know enough about domain controllers to
> > > > guess any more than that.
> > > > The problem is preventing me from using sash to log in remotely to my
> > >machine.
> > > >
> > > > I've attached the output of running
> > > >      strace --output=mkpasswd.strace.txt mkpasswd -u canning -d
> > > > to this message.  I have been unable to interpret this output enough
>to
> > > > figure out what is causing the problem.  If anyone can figure out what
>is
> > > > causing the problem, and suggest what might be done to fix it, I would
>be
> > > > grateful.
> > >
> > >
> > >Can you provide strace output from when you are running `mkpasswd -d'? As
> > >what you provided was for a command that worked (?).
>
>What user are you running mkpasswd as? If not Administrator, can you run it
>as Administrator?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Elfyn McBratney
>elfyn@exposure.org.uk
>www.exposure.org.uk


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