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Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache


On 5 Oct 99, at 20:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Use mkpasswd and mkgroup to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
> In the current snapshots, the following rules are important:
>
> - Dont use user and/or group names that are different from the
>   NT account names.
>   Ever:  administrators::544:
>   Never: admins::544:
> - Typically, group 513 is your primary group. This is `None' outside
>   and `Domain Users' inside of NT domains.
>   The primary group membership isn't important for `ntsec', so you
>   may change your group entry in /etc/passwd to, e.g., administrators
>   group:
>
> 	kai::1000:544:Kai Henningsen:/home/kai:/bin/sh

Supplementary groups don't work, right? (Just making sure I
understand what's going on.)

Anyway, given that NT doesn't quite seem to see a difference
between user and group ids (Novell is similar, incidentally), I
decided

	mkdir /etc
	cd /etc
	( mkpasswd -l -g ; mkgroup -l ) | sort -n -t: +2 > common
	ln common passwd
	ln common group

was the way to go here.

Using the 19990929 cygwin1.dll, this seems to work now. Thanks!

One more question: I see directories getting the other t bit set.
What does this mean?

> When you try `ntsec' you will see that this problem is gone.
> Maybe, you get other ones... but I'm working hard in making
> `ntsec' better.

Thanks again!


Regards - Kai Henningsen

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