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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:04:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509925074.20240426120406@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAvCNcDrVDLETrCTTH6EPEx_bs=Ao8kC5rev1-Xs8Qn1CWbvdQ@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Dan Shelton!

>> Then just change /etc/nsswitch.conf to enumerate "local" as well
>> and be done with it.

> That file is read-only for some customer installations, and we are not
> allowed to touch it.

Then tell the system administrator to touch it.

>>
>> You can even go so far as to use the Windows enumerator, i.e.,
>>
>>   $ net localgroup
>>
>> and than script it to use its output as input to getent group
>> for only the groups you really need info for.

> net localgroup changes layout and messages per system locale. That
> might be nice to watch as a human user, but impossible to write a
> parser. That damn thing does not honor LC_ALL, and I am now basically
> forced to write custom parsers for each customers language.

Try `chcp 65001` before calling to it. It may behave better then.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, April 26, 2024 12:02:05

Sorry for my terrible english...


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-22 17:38 Roland Mainz
2024-02-22 19:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-02-23 13:03   ` Roland Mainz
2024-02-23 15:47     ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-02-23 18:45       ` Roland Mainz
2024-02-23 21:15         ` Dan Shelton
2024-02-24 13:11           ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-05 22:38             ` Dan Shelton
2024-03-06 13:01               ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-09 21:26                 ` Glenn Strauss
2024-03-11  1:30                   ` Dan Shelton
2024-03-11  3:49                     ` Brian Inglis
2024-03-11 16:54                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-03-11  1:28                 ` Dan Shelton
2024-03-11 16:56                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-04-19 23:44                     ` Dan Shelton
2024-04-26  9:04                       ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2024-02-24 16:57           ` Brian Inglis
2024-02-24 12:53         ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-02-24 14:38   ` Will all SIDs fit into |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes ? / was: " Roland Mainz
2024-02-24 18:57     ` Corinna Vinschen
2024-02-25 21:04       ` Roland Mainz
2024-02-25 22:32         ` gs-cygwin.com
2024-02-26  4:17           ` gs-cygwin.com
2024-02-26 16:12           ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2024-02-26  9:20         ` Corinna Vinschen

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