On Apr 21 09:15, Tomas Jura wrote:
> On 04/20/2016 04:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 20 15:05, Tomas Jura wrote:
> >>On 04/19/2016 03:39 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>BTW: My machine is Windows Server 2008, yesterday I also run the Windows
> >>>>update procedure before I notified the chmod error.
> >>>>A months ago, I had to migrate to the new AD account. The cygwin was
> >>>>installed using my old account, which is deleted now. Is it possible that
> >>>>the query to AD runs under my old account?
> >>>That's a good question.  The problem is that I can't see *why* the
> >>>requests fail.  This bugs me since failing LookupAccountSid calls should
> >>>result in a debug message when running strace.
> >>>
> >>>Do you have changed your /etc/nsswitch.conf file by any chance?
> >>No I did not. All lines are commented out there.
> >>
> >>>Would you mind to create strace output of the command `id'?
> >>See attachment
> >Thanks.  It's not helpful, unfortunately.  The only hint that something
> >is going wrong is the same message as with chmod:
> >
> >   internal_getlogin: group not found in group DB
> >
> >There's no other strace message even remotely related to account mapping.
> >I don't grok that.  There should really be some error message :(
> >
> >Btw., what's the output of `id'?
> >
> >I'm wondering... is it possible that LDAP access to your DCs is
> >restricted?
> >
> >Also, can you change /etc/nsswitch.conf like this:
> >
> >   db_enum: cache local primary
> >
> >(seehttps://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-enum)
> >
> >exit and restart your shell and call `getent group'?  What does it
> >print?  Are the AD accounts enumerated and what info is printed for
> >them?  Examples are sufficent, I don't need your entire AD DB :)
> >
> >Also, what does `getent passwd $USER' print?
> >
> >
> >Corinna
> >
> Hi
> 
> Trying to modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf , I found that I can't write it !
> The file is writable only by the user which created it and which not exists
> any more (see above my story). I changed owner and access rights for
> /etc/nsswitch.conf and whole /var directory tree (also /var/cache).  And
> it's started working!
> 
> Then I removed the modifications of the /etc/nsswitch.conf (all lines
> commented)  and it works too. It seems that the problem is related to file
> access rights to /var.

Weird.  Cygwin doesn't use /var by itself.  Only applications do.
But, anyway, I'm glad you could fix it.


Corinna

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