Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3B0A97E5.1BC18894@lightbridge.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:46:29 -0400 From: Louis Bohm Reply-To: lbohm@lightbridge.com Organization: Lightbridge Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: crontab: can't obtain passwd entry References: <3B090405.B1D2BE14@lightbridge.com> <20010522095255.B27460@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3B0A5A28.F310222C@lightbridge.com> <20010522165113.F27460@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3B0A83DB.C0F568DB@lightbridge.com> <20010522182400.M27460@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here is my new passwd: lbohm@yoda:/home/lbohm% cat /etc/passwd Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0:: SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: ftpuser::1002:513:ftp,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1002:/home/ftpuser:/bin/bash Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash IUSR_YODA::1000:513:Internet Guest Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1000:/home/IUSR_YODA:/bin/bash IWAM_YODA::1001:513:Launch IIS Process Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1001:/home/IWAM_YODA:/bin/bash lbohm::500:513:,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-500:/home/lbohm:/bin/bash And here is $CYGWIN: lbohm@yoda:/home/lbohm% echo $CYGWIN tty notitle glob ntsec binmode And the result: lbohm@yoda:/home/lbohm% crontab -l crontab: can't obtain passwd entry. Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:21:00AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote: > > This is what I get when I do id: > > uid=500(root) gid=513(None) > > groups=0(Everyone),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users) > > > > I am not in a domain just a standalone win2k pro machine. > > > > Here is a copy of my passwd file too: > > > > Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0:: > > SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18:: > > Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: > > ftpuser:*:1002:513:ftp,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1002:/home/ftpuser:/bin/sh > > > > Guest:*:501:513:,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-501:/home/Guest:/bin/sh > > IUSR_YODA:*:1000:513:Internet Guest > > Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1000:/home/IUSR_YODA:/bin/sh > > IWAM_YODA:*:1001:513:Launch IIS Process > > Account,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-1001:/home/IWAM_YODA:/bin/sh > > root:*:500:513:lbohm-U,lbohm,S-1-5-21-117609710-1993962763-842925246-500:/home/root:/bin/sh > > > > The user lbohm is a copy of the NT Administrators account will all the > > permissions. > > That's definitely not created by `mkpasswd -l'. The above looks > simply broken. Recreate it and try again. It will not work if > you change the passwd entries while you don't know exactly what > you're doing. > > Read the online docs related to ntsec and be sure that ntsec is > switched on in $CYGWIN (_before_ starting any shell) when using > features like renaming an account in /etc/passwd. > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ ¤°`°Lightbridge, Inc ¤°`°67 South Bedford St. ¤°`°Burlington MA 01832 ¤°`°781.359.4795 mailto:lbohm@lightbridge.com ¤°`°http://www.lightbridge.com ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple