RE: xterm fails to start with setuid failed: Permission denied
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...) 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
RE: xterm fails to start with setuid failed: Permission denied
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
RE: xterm fails to start with setuid failed: Permission denied
Hi, I'm getting the same for xterm. My Cygwin / XFree86 installation from about three months ago was running fine, but when I upgraded it yesterday I get the same problem, at least when running as a domain user. Xterm works when I run it as the local administrator though. I also have problems with xcalc (window is filled with the 0 button), and xedit (displays the message Error: Shell widget fileMenu has zero width and/or height and doesn't start). This is both as domain user and local administrator This happens with both XFree86 and StaNet X-Win32 as X servers. Is there a problem with the client utilities build? This is caused by a stricter uid/gid handling in cygwin 1.3.11. I've stumbled about it and Corinna Vinschen told me to make sure, that for all user, who could own files, which you like to access has to be a corresponding entry in /etc/passwd. See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01198.html for more informations.
Re: xterm fails to start with setuid failed: Permission denied
Ralf Habacker wrote: This is caused by a stricter uid/gid handling in cygwin 1.3.11. I've stumbled about it and Corinna Vinschen told me to make sure, that for all user, who could own files, which you like to access has to be a corresponding entry in /etc/passwd. See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg01198.html for more informations. Thanks: after fixing my /etc/passwd, it works for me. BUT, I don't use ntsec, which is why I had never read the docs about it too closely. This stricter uid/gid stuff affects non-ntsec use as well: perhaps the user manual could be updated to reflect this? Regards, Peter. P.S. xcalc and xedit are still broken. Maybe a Motif/Lesstif problem? Anyway, these are not the most important of utilities.
