Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >>> I've just run the Setup snapshot on a fresh NT/4 machine >>> $ uname --all >>> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 nt4-rlandheer 1.3.21(0.77/3/2) 2003-03-12 00:24 i686 >>> unknown unknown Cygwin >>> During the post-install scripts, I got an error # 2453 from >>> mkpasswd. >> >> Yes, base-passwd 1.0 was broken, but the problem was masked because >> old setup used to re-create passwd-grp.sh from internal data. >> >> base-passwd 1.1 is now on the mirrors. >> >>> The result is: >>> $ id >>> uid=400(RLandheer) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd) >>> and >>> $ echo $HOME >>> /cygdrive/c/users/default >>> $ cat passwd >>> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >>> Administrateurs:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: >>> $ cat group >>> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: >>> >>> running mkpasswd from the command-line reproduces the error when run >>> with the -d option (but works nicely with -l or -g >>> >>> $ mkgroup -d >>> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: >>> Cannot get PDC, code = 2453 >> >> You forgot to mention - are you in a domain? > I don't know. > I'm on a Novell network - that's all I do know. > Any way I might be able to find out? (I do have administrator > priviledges).
>From what little I know of Novell networks, I think the answer is "no, not in a domain". In which case, it's expected that mkpasswd -d will fail, although, admittedly, it didn't do it very gracefully. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
