> Let me guess - you have logged in as a domain user, but your
> home directory
> is /home/Administrator (or whatever the local administrator
> is named in
> dutch...)
Thank god I'm using an English NT installation :))
Anyway - argh ! It works after all - after running the mkpasswd and mkgroup,
I hadn't exited my login shell. When I did and restarted it, I landed into
/home/fputte instead of /home/Administrator and now it works. Thanks for the
help !
rgds,
Florimon
>
> It seems that cygwin is capable of seeing all domain users
> and when running
> 'whoami' returns 'Administrator' instead of the domain user.
>
> I would guess that you will have to create an account in /etc/passwd
> manually - the question is just how... - but I will guess
> that you will
> have to find the SID of you domain user and add it to /etc/passwd.
>
> Med venlig hilsen / Regards
> Franz Wolfhagen
>
>
> Florimon van Putte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cygwin.com on
> 26-06-2002
> 10:50:35
>
> Please respond to Florimon van Putte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> To: Cygwin-Xfree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc:
> Subject: RE: xterm fails to start with "setuid failed: Permission
> denied"
>
>
>
>
> Ok, I've done
>
> mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l -u > /etc/group
> mkgroup -d -u >> /etc/group
>
> but I keep having xterm die on me with "setuid failed:
> Permission denied"
> ??
>
> rgds,
> Florimon van Putte
>
>
>
>
