Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F8479B6.1070304@gmc.ulaval.ca> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:55:18 -0400 From: Boris Mayer-St-Onge Organization: Universite Laval User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Domain Users References: <3F84462C.2000803@gmc.ulaval.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>bash: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied > > At a guess, this is because you have TEMP set to some directory that > domain users cannot access. You could add a "TEMP=/tmp" at the top of > /etc/profile, and see if it helps. Oh, and make sure /tmp on every > computer is mode 01777, so that it *is* writeable by everyone. The TEMP variable is set, and is %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp. The directory exist and user have write access (but not everyone, I will do test with that). >>Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that >>the /etc/passwd (ans possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. >>See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run >>mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd >>mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group >>Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. >> >>The problem is that we have several hundren of users and some of them >>are added and deleted each week. Is there an other solution that adding >>all the users in the /etc/passwd file? > > Unfortunately, the SID of the user should be in /etc/passwd for the user > to have full use of Cygwin's services, etc. One possible solution in your > situation is to keep one centralized user database on a shared drive and > mount it as /etc/passwd on each machine (and similarly for groups). That > way, when you add and remove users, you will only have to change one file. > The UIDs for the standard accounts (i.e., Administrator{,s}, SYSTEM, etc) > are usually pretty standard, at least on NT-based OSs, but I'm not too > sure about the SIDs, so you might have some problems there... Also, be > aware that security attributes on shared drives are controlled by the > "smbntsec" setting in the CYGWIN environment variable, rather than > "ntsec". Thanks for the answer. I will check what I can do. Two more questions: 1- From what I understand, this problem occur only since version 1.5.x of cygwin. Is that right? 2- Is it possible to install a older version of cygwin (we have all the file of version 1.3.22-1 except the setup.exe). When we try to install cygwin with the setup.exe from the web page and with the files from a local directory, we have errors. Is it possible to have an older version of setup.exe? Boris -- 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/