OK, then perhaps you want to check the permissions on those files relative to your /etc/passwd and /etc/groups. If that doesn't present the solution, you may want to send this information along to the list after reading <www.cygwin.com/bugs.html>
Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:21:33 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 1.3.20: bug: UID over 65536: "I have no name!" Hello, Even after changing my UID in /etc/passwd from 65558 to 22, I still get the following permission errors when I open a shell: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied /usr/share/texmf/aliases: Permission denied Also, my .bashrc file in my home directory is not being recognized. Best regards, Fred Ulmer -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:15 PM To: Keith Hopkins Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 1.3.20: bug: UID over 65536: "I have no name!" Keith Hopkins wrote: > Hi! > > 1.3.20-1 on Win2k, downloaded 20030306. > > I saw this when a friend of mine, and myself were trying to install > 1.3.20 yesterday (dl, then install from dl). > > The install would go fine, but when you started the shell, $UID would > have dropped the high bits from the NT-DOMAIN UID. For example, if my > friend's NT-DOMAIN UID (native win2k) was 65558, then his $UID would > become 22. On my machine (different company / NT-DOMAIN), the NT-DOMAIN > UID is 108293, but the $UID is 42757. > The big problem was that after running "mkpasswd -d -u USERNAME > NT-DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd", you get the message: > id: cannot find name for user ID 42757 > I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ > > So, Nothing matches for the NT-DOMAINs in /etc/passwd. > Without running mkpasswd, my friend would get permission errors when he > starts his shell. > The workaround I found was to change the UID to drop the high bits in > /etc/passwd. (change UID 108293 to 42757 for my user). > > Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Help? Yes, this issue has been mentioned before. If you're interested in the previous discussions, you can go wandering through the email archives to see them. However, the approach you took is the recommended one. -- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/