Permissions problems after domain change
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 15 18:32:00 GMT 2006
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.
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