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Subject:  Re: Where are home directories for other users besides my Admin account?
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siegfried wrote:
> I think the fix should be mkpasswd -l -d /etc/passwd but this says 
> (when run from the heintze account)
First question: Exactly where is the heintze account? If you participate 
in a domain is it in the Windows Active Directory or is a local user. If 
the later then -l is what you want. If it's the former then you need -d 
<domain> (<- from memory - I only run Ubuntu at home anymore).

Also, mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd is not what you want. mkpasswd -l -u 
heintze >> /etc/passwd is what you want. mkpasswd queries Active 
Directory (if -d is specified) or the local SAM (Security Accounts 
Manager) looking up user IDs, formulating them to a Cygwin style 
/etc/passwd entry, and then echoing them to stdout. So you want to 
redirect that output, appending (i.e. >>) to your /etc/passwd.
> mkpasswd (739): [1212] The format of the specified domain name is invalid.
My guess is that it took -d /etc/passwd to mean the Windows domain 
"/etc/passwd".
> Here is what uname says.
> heintze AT US-SEA-L3BER9K ~
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 US-SEA-L3BER9K 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 
> Cygwin
>
> Should I be using the -d option? Maybe not. OK, I'll try it without!
>
> No luck. It still does not see the heintze account.
Leading back to the question of where exactly is the "heintze" account? 
BTW you probably want -u heintze on that mkpasswd command. The -u says 
look for this particular user. You're only interested in the heintze user.
> So I use vi to edit /etc/passwd and duplicate the heintze-local entry and
> remove the -local . I got a
> little further.
>
> I get a dialog box that says
> "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will not exit. Please open
> /var/log/XWin.%s.log for more
> information.."
Let's get your local user working first then we can deal with the X 
problem. My guess there is that heintze probably doesn't have 
permissions to deal with heintze-local's home directory.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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