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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
