Re: mkpasswd -d

2019-12-20 Thread Jack Marks
. Any other ideas? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 18 18:54, Jack Marks wrote: In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete. In 3.1, it takes 150 - 180 seco

Re: mkpasswd -d

2019-12-19 Thread Jack Marks
Marks wrote: >> In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> >> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete. In 3.1, it >> takes 150 - 180 seconds to complete for the same user. Is this a bug, >> have I misconfigured something or i

Re: mkpasswd -d

2019-12-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-12-18 13:01, Jack Marks wrote: > On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Dec 18 18:54, Jack Marks wrote: >>> In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> >>> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete

Re: mkpasswd -d

2019-12-18 Thread Jack Marks
18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 18 18:54, Jack Marks wrote: In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete. In 3.1, it takes 150 - 180 seconds to complete for the same user. Is this a bug,

Re: mkpasswd -d

2019-12-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 18 18:54, Jack Marks wrote: > In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> > /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete. In 3.1, it > takes 150 - 180 seconds to complete for the same user. Is this a bug, > have I misconfigured something

mkpasswd -d

2019-12-18 Thread Jack Marks
In 1.7.31, I can run mkpasswd -d domainname -p /home -u userid >> /etc/passwd and it takes less than a second to complete. In 3.1, it takes 150 - 180 seconds to complete for the same user. Is this a bug, have I misconfigured something or is it something else? Sent from my iPhone

RE: mkpasswd doesn't regognize me

2017-08-23 Thread Wiedmann, Jochen
> Your domain is not the logon domain of the machine you're sitting in front > of. Try `mkpasswd -c', or `getent passwd +', both of > whihc should do what you're looking for. Thanks, Corinna, Indeed, "mkpasswd -c" worked nicely. Jochen SAG Consulting

Re: mkpasswd doesn't regognize me

2017-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 06:50, Wiedmann, Jochen wrote: > > Hi, Brian, > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > > Brian Inglis > > Sent: Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 07:59 > > To: cygwin@cygwi

RE: mkpasswd doesn't regognize me

2017-08-22 Thread Wiedmann, Jochen
Hi, Brian, > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Brian Inglis > Sent: Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 07:59 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: mkpasswd doesn't recognize me > On 2017-08-22 23:

RE: mkpasswd doesn't recognize me

2017-08-22 Thread Wiedmann, Jochen
Hi, Brian, > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Brian Inglis > Sent: Mittwoch, 23. August 2017 07:59 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: mkpasswd doesn't recognize me > On 2017-08-22 23:

Re: mkpasswd doesn't recognize me

2017-08-22 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-08-22 23:27, Wiedmann, Jochen wrote: > in order to set my home directory correctly in /etc/passwd, I run > mkpasswd | grep MYUSERID > mkpasswd -d | grep MYUSERID > mkpasswd -d -l | grep MYUSERID > mkpasswd -l | grep MYUSERID > Neither of which returns any o

mkpasswd doesn't recognize me

2017-08-22 Thread Wiedmann, Jochen
Hi, in order to set my home directory correctly in /etc/passwd, I run mkpasswd | grep MYUSERID mkpasswd -d | grep MYUSERID mkpasswd -d -l | grep MYUSERID mkpasswd -l | grep MYUSERID Neither of which returns any output. Thanks, Jochen SAG Consulting Services GmbH - Sitz/Registered

Re: mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

2015-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 13:29, Linda Walsh wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 20 11:58, Tim Magee wrote: > >>Now then, > >> > >>Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our > >>problem is with the way user names pulled from outs

Re: mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

2015-03-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 11:58, Tim Magee wrote: Now then, Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary domain get decorated. My question is: will there ever be a way to tell mkpasswd

Re: mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

2015-03-24 Thread Tim Magee
On 20/03/15 18:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 11:58, Tim Magee wrote: Now then, Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary domain get decorated. My question is: will there ever be a way to

Re: mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

2015-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 11:58, Tim Magee wrote: > Now then, > > Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our > problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary domain > get decorated. My question is: will there ever be a way to tell > mkpasswd/

mkpasswd: option to force the 'primary' domain?

2015-03-20 Thread Tim Magee
Now then, Since Cygwin 1.7.34 dropped, mkpasswd has been problematic for us. Our problem is with the way user names pulled from outside the primary domain get decorated. My question is: will there ever be a way to tell mkpasswd/mkgroup "make the one whose users get undecorated

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-29 Thread Houder
Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I fixed the offset for groups, bot not for local groups (never mind the >> difference for standalone machines). Duh. Fixed in CVS. I'll probably >> generate a new snapshot later today. > New snapshot is up. Please give it a try. Done.

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
the gecos content, it's created not the same way in Cygwin vs. > mkpasswd and this won't change. See the thread starting at > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00580.html > > > UpdatusUser:*:197609:197121:UpdatusUser,U-Seven\UpdatusUser,S-1-5-21-91509220-15750

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Houder
) >> > >> > For the gecos content, it's created not the same way in Cygwin vs. >> > mkpasswd and this won't change. See the thread starting at >> > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00580.html >> >> Did you notice the difference between

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
gt; For the gecos content, it's created not the same way in Cygwin vs. > > mkpasswd and this won't change. See the thread starting at > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00580.html > > Did you notice the difference between (Guest, Henri) and (Test, UpdatusUser)

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Houder
> On Nov 28 09:24, Houder wrote: >> Test:*:197614:197121:Test,U-Seven\Test,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1006:/home/Test:/bin/bash >> < gecos field has THREE members (iso two) > > For the gecos content, it's created not the same

Re: mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 09:24, Houder wrote: > Test:*:197614:197121:Test,U-Seven\Test,S-1-5-21-91509220-1575020443-2714799223-1006:/home/Test:/bin/bash > < gecos field has THREE members (iso two) For the gecos content, it's created not the same way in Cygwin vs. mkp

mkpasswd/mkgroup ... although only helper tools

2014-11-28 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, For a rainy day ... really ;-) Although you think about mkpasswd/mkgroup as mere helper tools (in the "future" release of Cygwin), I would like to draw your attention to some pecularities in the output of these programs. Note: mkpasswd/mkgroup were extracted from

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> But, anyway, you asked for it, you got it. I applied a patch to > mkpasswd/mkgroup to generate uids/gids for the local machine always > using the same offset as when Cygwin computes them. > > Check out the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna, I did :

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> On Nov 27 18:41, Houder wrote: >> > On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: >> >> Hi Corinna, >> >> >> >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without >> >> /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine >>

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 18:41, Houder wrote: > > On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: > >> Hi Corinna, > >> > >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without > >> /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine > >> is NOT a 'foreign ma

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
> On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf >> present. Without it, my machine >> is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a '

Re: Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 17:12, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf > present. Without it, my machine > is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign > machine'. S

Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused (2)

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, For comparison: output of 'mkpasswd -l' with and without /etc/nsswitch.conf present. Without it, my machine is NOT a 'foreign machine'. When it is present, my machine is a 'foreign machine'. Strikes me as ... Until now, I believed that the out

Output from mkpasswd/mkgroup ... Again confused

2014-11-27 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, On my stand-alone machine (using the test release), the output from 'mkpasswd' is NOW different from the one from 'mkpasswd -l' ... They used to be the same ... Earlier on the output of 'mkpasswd -l' was different from the one from 'mkpasswd -

Re: Slip of the pen in the description of mkpasswd. Corinna?

2014-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 7 13:05, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > As result of Christian Franke's input (what should mkpasswd/mkgroup 'exactly' > generate?), I reread > the description of mkpasswd at > > https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ug/using-utils.html > > It reads

Slip of the pen in the description of mkpasswd. Corinna?

2014-11-07 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, As result of Christian Franke's input (what should mkpasswd/mkgroup 'exactly' generate?), I reread the description of mkpasswd at https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ug/using-utils.html It reads: The mkpasswd program can be used to create a /etc/passwd file. Cygwin doe

Re: Mild amazement (questions) about the output of mkpasswd (1.7.33). Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Houder
c. and that >> I would like to keep my "own" mapping between SIDs and uids/gids ... >> it appears to me, that both mkpasswd and mkgroup are no longer of any >> help to me, as both appear to apply "some fixed (automatic) mapping" >> between SIDs and uids

Re: Mild amazement (questions) about the output of mkpasswd (1.7.33). Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
to keep my "own" mapping between SIDs and uids/gids ... > it appears to me, that both mkpasswd and mkgroup are no longer of any > help to me, as both appear to apply "some fixed (automatic) mapping" > between SIDs and uids/gids ... Right? Not quite. Did you read the p

Mild amazement (questions) about the output of mkpasswd (1.7.33). Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, As adviced by you, I replaced the "cygwin package" with the test version (1.7.33) on my "Cygwin-32" ... Let us assume, I am NOT interested in "Windows domains" etc. and that I would like to keep my "own" mapping between SIDs and uids/gids .

Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Houder
> On Oct 28 00:11, Houder wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output >> from mkpasswd -l -u on >> both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". [snip] >> Please, enlighten me .

Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 28 00:11, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output > from mkpasswd -l -u on > both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". > > As an example, the output on my "Cygwin-64"

Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?

2014-10-28 Thread Houder
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Houder wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output >> from mkpasswd -l -u on >> both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". >> Hi Mr.? "S

Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?

2014-10-27 Thread cyg Simple
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output > from mkpasswd -l -u on > both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". > Are you logged into a domain? -c would gi

Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna?

2014-10-27 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output from mkpasswd -l -u on both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". As an example, the output on my "Cygwin-64": 64-@@ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23

Re: [64-bit] 1.7.23: mkpasswd broken

2013-08-10 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/10/2013 4:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 9 23:05, David Rothenberger wrote: >> mkpasswd appears to be broken in 1.7.23. Every switch I try to >> give it, it response with "unknown switch -- -h" (or whatever >> switch I used). >> >> T

Re: [64-bit] 1.7.23: mkpasswd broken

2013-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 23:05, David Rothenberger wrote: > mkpasswd appears to be broken in 1.7.23. Every switch I try to give it, > it response with "unknown switch -- -h" (or whatever switch I used). > > The mkpasswd from the 2013-07-29 snapshot is working fine. mkgroup is > also fin

[64-bit] 1.7.23: mkpasswd broken

2013-08-09 Thread David Rothenberger
mkpasswd appears to be broken in 1.7.23. Every switch I try to give it, it response with "unknown switch -- -h" (or whatever switch I used). The mkpasswd from the 2013-07-29 snapshot is working fine. mkgroup is also fine. The 32-bit mkpasswd is also fine. -- David Rothenberger -

Re: Use of mkpasswd and mkgroup for bigger organizations

2013-06-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
message will appear: Your group is currently "mkpasswd" If this is the case, this suggests that querying your domain for user information is having some "difficulties". 000-cygwin-post-install.sh post install script uses the -c flag for both mkpasswd and mkgroup to put the

Use of mkpasswd and mkgroup for bigger organizations

2013-06-06 Thread DESMET, JO
currently "mkpasswd" And will further suggest to execute the following: mkpasswd -l [-d] > /usr/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] > /usr/group With the note that -d is for domain users. Now you have a huge domain etc ... it runs forever ... geez downloading the whole domain? Man, google, docume

Re: Cygwin mkpasswd giving The format of the specified domain name is invalid

2013-05-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 11:01, Sorin Sbarnea wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to make mkpasswd/mkgroup to work on a Windows 2003 R2 > Enterprise x64. > > While trying to finish Cygwin config and running mkpasswd -l -d and > mkgroup, it fails with the following error: > > $ mkpasswd

Fwd: Cygwin mkpasswd giving The format of the specified domain name is invalid

2013-05-14 Thread Sorin Sbarnea
Hi, I am unable to make mkpasswd/mkgroup to work on a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64. While trying to finish Cygwin config and running mkpasswd -l -d and mkgroup, it fails with the following error: $ mkpasswd -l -u sorins -d /etc/passwd sorins:unused:1012:513:sorins,U-JIRA\sorins,S-1-5-21

Re: mkpasswd with domain gives The security database is corrupted error - SOLVED

2012-08-10 Thread Orion Poplawski
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Aug 9 22:37, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > Fresh install of cygwin 1.7.16 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Trying to add my > > domain users to /etc/passwd, but when I run mkpasswd I get (somewhat obfuscated): > > > > $ mkp

Re: mkpasswd with domain gives The security database is corrupted error

2012-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 22:37, Orion Poplawski wrote: > Fresh install of cygwin 1.7.16 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Trying to add my > domain users to /etc/passwd, but when I run mkpasswd I get (somewhat > obfuscated): > > $ mkpasswd -l -d CO-RA > SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: > Local

mkpasswd with domain gives The security database is corrupted error

2012-08-09 Thread Orion Poplawski
Fresh install of cygwin 1.7.16 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Trying to add my domain users to /etc/passwd, but when I run mkpasswd I get (somewhat obfuscated): $ mkpasswd -l -d CO-RA SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U

Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'

2012-08-01 Thread cygwin
network). > > > > I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' every > > time I open a new terminal. > > > > Since this is a domain, I first tried "mpasswd -l -d >| /etc/passwd" > > but the domain lookup seemed

Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'

2012-08-01 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM, <...> wrote: > > I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin > privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). > > I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"

Re: Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'

2012-07-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 22:35, cyg...@kosowsky.org wrote: > I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin > privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). > > I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' ev

Can't resolve "Your group is currently "mkpasswd"'

2012-07-18 Thread cygwin
I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently "mkpasswd"' every time I open a new terminal. Since this is a domain, I first tried &q

Re: mkpasswd and domain fail with windows network

2012-03-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Furash, Gary F - (furashg) wrote: I've had this problem in the past with in other organizations and have never been able to get around it. Problem: running mkpasswd w/ '-D' doesn't work/finish Details: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7 64 bit in a typical work environment

Re: mkpasswd and domain fail with windows network

2012-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/14/2012 5:57 PM, Furash, Gary F - (furashg) wrote: I've had this problem in the past with in other organizations and have never been able to get around it. Problem: running mkpasswd w/ '-D' doesn't work/finish Details: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7 64 bit in a typi

mkpasswd and domain fail with windows network

2012-03-14 Thread Furash, Gary F - (furashg)
I've had this problem in the past with in other organizations and have never been able to get around it. Problem: running mkpasswd w/ '-D' doesn't work/finish Details: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7 64 bit in a typical work environment. I don't think that matters be

Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-02-02 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
>> Update: >> >> Starting the mintty shelll again I get the same message suggesting >> running the mkpasswd and mkgroup. >> >> I do the command without the -d and everything seems to work. >> >> mkpasswd -l > /.etc/passwd; mkgroup -l > /etc/gro

Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 01:28, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > >>> Hi; > >>> > >>> mkpasswd -l /

Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-02-02 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:12, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >>> Hi; >>> >>> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The >>> RPC ser

Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-01-31 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 00:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Hi; >> >> mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The >> RPC server is unavailable > > The User's Guide may help: > > http

Re: mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 30 22:39, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The > RPC server is unavailable The User's Guide may help: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mkgroup http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.h

mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable

2012-01-30 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l /etc/group results: [1722]: The RPC server is unavailable fresh install, first time, of ALL (non-source) packages of cygwin on 64-bit Windows 7 Got the usual: "Your group is mkgroup..." I'm not currently in a domain and do not wish to

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 17 10:24, Kåre Edvardsen wrote: > On fr., 2011-10-14 at 10:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 14 07:39, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: > > > > > > > What is the contents of the "/etc/password" and "/etc/group" files > > > > a

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-17 Thread Kåre Edvardsen
On fr., 2011-10-14 at 10:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 14 07:39, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: > > > > > What is the contents of the "/etc/password" and "/etc/group" files > > > after you run the "mkpasswd/mkgroup" commands (as admi

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 14 07:39, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: > > > What is the contents of the "/etc/password" and "/etc/group" files > > after you run the "mkpasswd/mkgroup" commands (as administrator)? > > > What user can log in, but isn't in the password

RE: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-14 Thread Edvardsen Kåre
> What is the contents of the "/etc/password" and "/etc/group" files > after you run the "mkpasswd/mkgroup" commands (as administrator)? > What user can log in, but isn't in the password file? > Is that user local or a domain user? The Win

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jon Clugston! > Is that user local or a domain user? -d switch means dumping domain users. But I think the OP missed the part, where it should be run from superadmin user. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 14.10.2011, <04:21> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-13 Thread Jon Clugston
2011/10/13 Edvardsen Kåre : > Greetings, Kеre Edvardsen! > >> I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account >> with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or >> xterm) as another user prompts: > >>

RE: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-13 Thread Edvardsen Kåre
Greetings, Kеre Edvardsen! > I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account > with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or > xterm) as another user prompts: > Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This

Re: Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kеre Edvardsen! > I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account > with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or > xterm) as another user prompts: > Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This

Problems with mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-10-13 Thread Kåre Edvardsen
I've installed cygwin "system wide" on a client (W7 32b) from an account with full Administrators privileges. However, opening a Bash shell (or xterm) as another user prompts: Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that your gid is not in /etc/gro

Re: Proper Setting of mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-01-11 Thread David Sastre
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:09:40PM -0700, Gary Furash wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55:09AM -0700, Gary Furash wrote: > > > Problem: > > > 1. When I create a file or such using cygwin, it says that the group > > > is "mkpasswd". > > >

Re: Proper Setting of mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-01-11 Thread David Sastre
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:55:09AM -0700, Gary Furash wrote: > Problem: > 1. When I create a file or such using cygwin, it says that the group is > "mkpasswd". This usually indicates that the Cygwin profile I'm logged on is > not setup properly > 2. My work PC is part

Proper Setting of mkpasswd and mkgroup

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Furash
Problem: 1. When I create a file or such using cygwin, it says that the group is "mkpasswd". This usually indicates that the Cygwin profile I'm logged on is not setup properly 2. My work PC is part of a windows group. That same account is also a PC administrator. 3. My home PC i

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/2/2011 7:08 PM, aputerguy wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/2/2011 9:09 AM, aputerguy wrote: Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as the file owner in cygwin so that rsyn

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-02 Thread aputerguy
sure I understand the benefit of mapping such a common and known owner to the '' notation which is supposed to be for unknown users and groups. I mean from a user perspective, I don't see the downside of not including any standard user who is likely to own files. I mean jus

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/2/2011 9:09 AM, aputerguy wrote: Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfers it over properly. Presumably this would mean adding it to m

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-02 Thread aputerguy
s message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Owner-Group-showing-up-as-%22--%22-on-some-Windows-files---despite-mkpasswd-mkgroup-tp3068p30571878.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-02 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:59 AM, aputerguy wrote: > If trustedinstaller is a valid file owner then I would like it to show up as > the file owner in cygwin so that rsync transfers it over properly. > Presumably this would mean adding it to my /etc/passwd file though I'm not > sure what would be the

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2011-01-01 Thread aputerguy
gt;> >> This occurs even though I ran: >> mkpasswd -cl> /etc/passwd >> mkgroup --local> /etc/group >> >> The /owner and /primary group are displayed in subinacl (often as >> 'trustedinstaller'). Note that 'trustedinstaller'

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2010-12-31 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 Larry Hall wrote: > See this link for more details: > > Thank you very much for that link. (It would have saved me much time if I'd seen it a couple of weeks ago... :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2010-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/29/2010 11:46 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get: owner/group = ???/???, implying that the numeric uid/gid are not found in the passwd/group file. This occurs even though I ran: mkpasswd -cl>

Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

2010-12-29 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
When I do an 'ls -al' (or a getfacl) on some files, I get: owner/group = ???/???, implying that the numeric uid/gid are not found in the passwd/group file. This occurs even though I ran: mkpasswd -cl > /etc/passwd mkgroup --local > /etc/group The /ow

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
you be the judge of whether anything there has changed from the last time you tried to build the DLL. It is, however, worth noting that building the DLL is *not* necessary to build mkpasswd. Certainly it's easiest if you just grab the source for everything from CVS but if you're just lookin

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 01:46:12PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> It's possible, sure. I expect it's pretty obvious where you might want to >> make such a change in mkpasswd.c if you're so inclined. > >Inclined is FAR from the issue. > >I've tried to build cygwin at l

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-07 Thread Linda Walsh
insight than debugging through the code. I tried a trace (and printed in my last report) of mkpasswd -- but couldn't even see what syscall it was that was failing! All I got was one of your fellow developer-children that went into some rant about things in my environment that ma

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/2/2010 7:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: On 7/30/2010 6:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 7/30/2010 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: This is still a problem. /bin> mkpasswd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-02 Thread Linda Walsh
On 7/30/2010 6:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 7/30/2010 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> This is still a problem. >> >> /bin> mkpasswd >> SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: >> LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: >> NetworkService:

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-07-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/30/2010 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: This is still a problem. /bin> mkpasswd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: mkpasswd (

Re: DomainUser homedir should be ? => probem: mkpasswd: (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-07-15 Thread Reini Urban
2010/7/13 Linda Walsh : ... > Windows 7 Ultimate Ver 6.1 Build 7600 > Running under WOW64 on AMD64 > Path:   . >        C:\sbin >        C:\usr\sbin >        C:\usr\local\sbin >        C:\Prog64\strawberry-perl\c\bin >        C:\prog64\strawberry-perl\perl\site\bin >        C:\prog64\strawberry-per

Re: BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

2009-12-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
also doesn't seem to be >> fully functional either (delete key doesn't work, less is not working >> properly ... etc). > >I have no mkpasswd or group, no mount. Don't know what else is missing. >I do have 'sed', but it might have been there from b

Re: BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

2009-12-24 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/24 Linda Walsh: >        It appears several files are missing. > I have no mkpasswd or group, no mount.  Don't know what else is missing. > I do have 'sed', but it might have been there from before (I didn't > reinstall > it). > > I've done a

BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

2009-12-24 Thread Linda Walsh
ess is not working properly ... etc). It appears several files are missing. I have no mkpasswd or group, no mount. Don't know what else is missing. I do have 'sed', but it might have been there from before (I didn't reinstall it). I've done a cygcheck -c to se

Re: dash but no ash; mkpasswd/mkgroup problem; rebasing

2009-10-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/27/2009 10:18 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: Warning: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\bash.exe hides C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe This could have been your problem. Postinstall scripts run under bash. If your local version wasn't up to the task for some reason, postinstall scripts would fail and your installa

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
09-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin > >> > >> If I do (obviously found by mistake): > >> > >> $ mkpasswd -n 0 > >> mkpasswd: unknown option -- n > >> Try '?? a --help' for more information. > >> > >> Note the rubish after &qu

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:19:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote: >> In last cygwin beta: >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin >> >> If I do (obviously fo

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote: > Hi, > > In last cygwin beta: > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin > > If I do (obviously found by mistake): > > $ mkpasswd -n 0 > mkpasswd: unknown option -- n > Tr

mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

2009-10-02 Thread Julio Costa
Hi, In last cygwin beta: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin If I do (obviously found by mistake): $ mkpasswd -n 0 mkpasswd: unknown option -- n Try '̨ a --help' for more information. Note the rubish after "Try". Or, if

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