Re: domain and user localname conflict

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Ling,

Please configure your client to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your
replies -- let's not make the spam harvesters' life any easier.

I'm surprised you get these messages...  They probably have something to
do with the tetex installation, but they seem to appear in your
/etc/profile or ~/.bashrc, since they appear every time you open a bash
shell.  Well, why not look at the actual permissions on those files?
What's the output of "ls -l /usr/share/texmf/{web2c/texmf.cnf,ls-R}"?
What about "getfacl /usr/share/texmf/{web2c/texmf.cnf,ls-R}"?
If you have administrative privileges, you can "chmod a+w
/usr/share/texmf/{web2c/texmf.cnf,ls-R}", which should get rid of the
messages.
	Igor

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Ling F. Zhang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Yes, I kind of did that already actually, I added a "_AD" to all my
> account username.  However this is what I am getting when I open cygwin:
>
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied
>
> user1_AD@laptop ~
> $
>
> This is the permission issue that's bugging me...
>
> Thank you.
>
> --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha<at>cs<dot>nyu<dot>edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
> >
> > > I did the following after I install cygwin in my laptop (WINXP PRO),
> > > which has both local account and domain account with the same
> > > username (for example, both have user "admin"). Looks like if I log
> > > into Windows locally and then use cygwin, everything is fine.  When
> > > I log into domain however, I can't do anything because I don't have
> > > permission to do anything.
> > >
> > > yes, I already ran:
> > > mkpasswd -d -l > /etc/passwd
> > > mkgroup -d -l > /etc/group
> > >
> > > Any idea?
> >
> > Ling,
> >
> > If you have two accounts with the same name in /etc/passwd, only the
> > first one is found when looking up by name.  The way it is invoked
> > from the standard scripts (and the way you ran it), "mkpasswd" will
> > put the local accounts first, so, if you try to log in through, say,
> > ssh into the local machine with the "admin" account (as in your
> > example), Cygwin will find the local "admin" first, and check the
> > password accordingly.
> >
> > Fortunately, there is a solution.  Cygwin account names (those in
> > /etc/passwd) don't have to correspond to Windows account names, as
> > long as the SID (the long string of numbers and digits starting with
> > "S-") matches.  So, you have two solutions: either move the local
> > "admin" line down past the domain "admin" one (which will effectively
> > "hide" it from look-ups by name) or rename it to something else (say,
> > "local_admin") if you want to access it too.
> >       Igor

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