From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6464 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2014 14:55:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6449 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2014 14:55:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:55:29 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id BA96052041A; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:55:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:57:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin Message-ID: <20140220145526.GM2246@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/CMXFb8mCYhr2S8D" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00549.txt.bz2 --/CMXFb8mCYhr2S8D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1497 On Feb 20 14:28, J.H. vd Water wrote: > >I don't know about you, but on my Linux box I get something like this: > > > > $ id > > uid=3D500(corinna) gid=3D11125(vinschen) groups=3D11125(vinschen),33(t= ape), > > 100(users),107(qemu),486(wireshark),1000(cvs),11126(libvirt) > > > >Most of the time I don't care about the supplementary groups after my > >primary group either, but that doesn't mean I don't want id to print > >them, nor are they unimportant. >=20 > Agreed, the supplementary groups I observe on Unix are relevant to me ...= I know > that out of experience. >=20 > The difference is, that all supplementary groups show up in the /etc/grou= p file on > my Unix box ... That's because you're using the files option exclusively on your Unix box. > However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above d= o NOT show > up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere). >=20 > ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a Cygwin= -only user > of the Windows operating system (using passwd and group files). If you only want to use the content of your passwd and group files, rather than the db (which is pretty much upside down from what this patch is trying to accomplish, but, anyway), simply change your /etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly. Just as on Linux. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --/CMXFb8mCYhr2S8D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTBhdeAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gacIP/jmKRyV67sY0aOcomUE+hx1o GhI+VQQgpg7bxJkPGRNrlLoHM1HM8OuJccaOc0EBGVYVs1bG/bX6faBkOL957WZ5 u7+XmuAkdAhSm1Sc/WiwOw2C/cA8aXvCb10zlED/oXYaQUHmjPwCalVgizzMdkmc tMTAsZfTsPFFpn7yv+FoOZsZpXeo9G94sT+pwLsk2L5KO5TXk5/7/Q8Ss2leCxmA 5Pi3WlEhny/At1jizMZarlmK6kwl/I0TyWpaTqQh9XurQnLmAadYtos2aWl03FXm boILEwqQ7QAqmtV0Oo5j4/1MGLMdk+TJ/Bwxt9L/TzyXVvsq0I+TOPF0E11Cb/aO hPUAmAA0ls07rteuZiGOzwcPrr3aJlAVThOgkOWBxbO69pGoRXMzl04sfproOjiY 60dhf4mxX6XzRQOpxO8QgrIz92HiasnsvQnBZxEDJKPWh0Y2oRvdIr66m7isBa22 gc25ppfbYcc/rs/JyJKsT5sYHP6iGV5tvJHZpKIQW7lUDvKj7d4pN8tP3B5aW4iE YVxlL9/f7m6CwLC+SEY381OBfnnEBtn8i1Uo8wg/72U86BngDgOaS36IS9UBxyMf l5ZU4HP0AJK4YJdvLhAkeMQc23xFEvaldljj0RwCjgCf11gbG5EmSD1i/8f3NCgK drRmDYc1ksxX1uCEZTd7 =R03t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/CMXFb8mCYhr2S8D--