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
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