Hi, I've been struggling with this for the past week to no avail. As the title suggests, if I am logged in under a user that is not the user who installed Cygwin (regardless of the user's windows permissions), then I cannot modify near anything outside of /home/<user>/. Here's what I'm trying to get working.
1a) Install Cygwin as a Local Administrator. Run "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -l > /etc/group" OR (I would prefer 1a, but 1b is acceptable as well) 1b) Install Cygwin as Domain Administrator. Run "mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -d > /etc/group" 2) Login as Domain User (has administrative privileges on local machine AND can access the AD). NOTE: At this point, I get the message: Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that your gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd. The /etc/passwd (and 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. 3) Attempt to run "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd" and "mkgroup -d >> /etc/group" However, I get the message: $ mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd -sh: /etc/passwd: Permission Denied If I run "ls -al /" then I get an odd (but expected, I think) list of permissions on several root folders. eg. drwxr-xr-x+ ???????? mkpasswd 0 Oct 31 14:16 etc I cannot even touch a file inside the directories with ???????? listed as their user. $ touch /etc/myfile touch: cannot touch 'myfile': PermissionDenied HOWEVER, I can touch/edit files under the windows file system. $ touch /cygdrive/c/myfile $ echo "data" >> /cygdrive/c/myfile $ echo "data" >> /cygdrive/c/<existing file with ???????? user> Any help is appreciated, as I've been stuck on this for just over a week now. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
