At 03:42 AM 4/7/2005, you wrote: >Sorry, I've searched the lists quite a bit as well as the documenation and >other online sources that I could find. I couldn't find anything that was both >similar to my problem and had a solution that I could understand. I've been >trying to add domain users to Cygwin from our main domain server. It has >Windows 2003 Server installed. The first account that it made automatically, >adminstrator, seems to work perfectly. After that, however, none of the >accounts work. I think I'm using the correct commands... >mkgroup -d > /etc/group >mkpasswd -d "domain name" -u "user name" >> /etc/passwd
That's fine. >The entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group look very similar to the entries for >the administrator account that works just fine, however, a home directory >isn't made and login always fails for the other accounts. >I tried adding a -p /home to the command, but it still didn't make a directory >for the user. mkpasswd/mkgroup don't create the user's home directory. /etc/profile is responsible for that, assuming the directory does not already exist. >If it is a permissions problem then this info might help. I'm logging into the >main domain server to add the users in Cygwin. I'm logging into the >"administrator" account on that computer(same account as the Cygwin account >that actually works). The regular "domain users" group that contains all of >the users I'm trying to add doesn't have the permission to log on locally to >the computer I'm doing this from (thought that might be an issue, but I'm not >sure). The "domain users" group doesn't have write priveledges to the >C:\cygwin\ folder (does that mean I'd have to change their path to somewhere >they DO have priveledges?). Sure. That's going to be a problem. If the user trying to start 'cygwin.bat' on that machine doesn't have permission to write to what '/etc/passwd' says is it's home directory, there's going to be trouble. Change this and things should work better for you. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
