Do you have write access to /etc/passwd & /etc/group with the (old) domain user account when you are running mkpasswd -d? Normally these files should not be world-wide writeable.
Try 'mkpasswd -d' (without redirection) If this doesn't work either - happily ignore my comment :) If this does work then this sounds like a missing write-access to the database files /etc/passwd and /etc/group benjamin lindner On 15.03.2004 at 13:07 Calvin Smith wrote: >Oops, I didn't think the first message got sent, so I sent another with >some more information. > >I did try running the command as a domain user, but I got the "Access >Denied" error. Does this imply that I need to be something other than just >a plain old user to execute the command? Something more than a plain old >user but not necessarily a domain admin? > >thanks for your help. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Calvin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:00:37 -0500 >Subject: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd > >If the user you're trying to access the domain with is not a valid domain >user, then you will have problems like this. You don't need to be the >domain administrator to run 'mkpasswd' with '-d' but you will need to >run it as a user that's a member of the domain. > >Larry > > > > >-- >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/ -- 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/
