On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:24:40AM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> Installed on a Windows 2K workstation and member of an NT 4 domain.
>
> Using an account on the domain added to Administrators group on
> workstation, but merely a regular user on the domain.
>
>
> Problem:
>
> In the groups file, 513 is "None". I thought that was only supposed to
> happen on a workgroup system.
On set `mkpasswd' is only called with -l option. Call it again
using the -d option.
> Untarring files with tar -xvzf fails miserably (as same user as described
> above). Permissions are set wrong on new directories, and extract fails on
> files destined for those directories because of inadequate permissions.
>
> It would seem that I need to fix my /etc/passwd and/or /etc/group files,
> but I don't understand them well enough to know what to do. What do I need
> to do here
Call mkpasswd and mkgroup without options. That should give you a clue.
And calling them with options isn't dangerous at all since they both
write to stdout. A little disposition to play is very helpful sometimes.
Corinna
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