Re: UID not correct - not getting domain's UID

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do
> > mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc.
> > However when I start a bash shell id returns:
> >
> > $ id
> > uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users)
> > groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),38018(CTXSJCA),28526(dept-6700),10513(#Domain 
> > Users),401(Domain 
> > Users),37324(Exceed8),75030(IRV-bsehwdsl),66771(IRVA630XChina),66772(IRVA630XChinaBSE) 
> >
> >
> > Yet if I do:
> >
> > $ mkpasswd -d -u adefaria
> > ADEFARIA:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:100260:10513:Andrew 
> > DeFaria,U-BROADCOM\ADEFARIA,S-1-5-21-1039729616-1467765255-1947940980-90260:/home:/bin/bash 
> >
> >
> > As you can see my UID from the domain controler is 100260 and GID is 
> > 10513.
> > Why is id returning 400 and 401?
>
> I believe cygwin finds the first record in /etc/passwd that matches a 
> given username.  So try reordering them.  Same with /etc/group and 
> "Domain Users".  I don't recall whether the usernames are 
> case-sensitive -- so the all-caps on your domain username may be a red 
> herring.

Argh! You're right. Good catch. What happened is I was doing a mkpasswd 
-d > /etc/passwd and it appeared to be hanging. So I killed it and then 
did mkpasswd -d -u adefaria >> /etc/passwd. Unfortunately this put my 
entry at the end of the last partially written line! Thus I was not found!

I've corrected this. Thanks.

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