mkpasswd: [5] Access is denied.
Pierre A. Humblet
pierre.humblet@ieee.org
Wed Feb 19 21:52:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Peter Canning wrote:
> 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.
> >>
Have you tried creating the passwd file with "mkpasswd -l -c" ?
That's within your control. Obviously changing the access to the PDC
depends on your domain administrator.
Pierre
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