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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


On Feb 18 19:44, J.H. vd Water wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> >> After I had set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows
> >>
> >> db_enum: files
> >>
> >> the output of getpwent and getgrent looked "familiar" to me. (though the
> >> output of 'id' is not).
> >
> >In how far?  Did you read my text in terms of how user and group names
> >are created?  The leading separator char for builtin groups is an SFU
> 
> Read and understand your text completely? No.

Uh, well, I graciously allow to ask questions ;)

> >thingy.  If it's too disturbing we can discuss changing that, but right
> >now I'm still looking for some kind of similarity.
> 
> What I meant was:
> 
> The output of 'id' in my "regular setup" shows:
> 
> @@# id
> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users)
> 
> The output of 'id' in the "test setup" shows:
> 
> $ id
> uid=1003(Henri) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),0(root),545(Users),4(+INTERACTIVE),\
> 11(+AuthenticatedUsers),4095CurrentSession),66048(+LOCAL)
> 
> To me the second output is different - but perhaps it is not.

It shows groups which are present in your user token, but which are
not in your /etc/group file.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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