Permissions problems after domain change

[mwoehlke]

Chuck wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Chuck wrote:
>>> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I
>>> log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own
>>> files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I
>>> need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all
>>> question marks when I do an "ls -l". Can anyone help me fix this? TIA.
>>>
>>> $ ls -laF
>>> total 64
>>> drwx------+ 17 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Aug 15 10:21 ./
>>> drwx------+  3 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Apr  6 17:10 ../
>>> -rw-------   1 CHamilto Users         6998 Jul 13 09:50 .bash_history
>>> -rw-------   1 CHamilto Domain Users     0 Oct  7  2004 .ICEauthority
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users   354 Oct  7  2004 .XSM-Default
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users    93 Oct 11  2004 .Xdefaults
>>> [snipped]
>>> drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Aug 15 12:28 .keychain/
>>> drwx------+  2 CHamilto ????????         0 Jul 26 09:12 .ssh/
>>
>> Looks to me like you just need to recreate your '/etc/group'  and
>> '/etc/passwd' files.  Try:
>>
>> mkpasswd -l -d >/etc/passwd
>> mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group
>>
>> If this takes too long, look at the -D flag for each so you can specify
>> the domain.
>>
>>
> 
> Doesn't seem like my versions of these commands support the -D option.
> 
> $ mkpasswd -l -D
> mkpasswd: unknown option -- D
> Try 'mkpasswd --help' for more information.
> 
> $ mkgroup -l -D
> mkgroup: unknown option -- D
> Try 'mkgroup --help' for more information.

Did you try 'man mkpasswd'? It looks like the correct syntax is 
'mkpasswd -l -d [<domain> ...]'

-- 
Matthew
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