On Feb 20 19:58, J.H. vd Water wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> >> However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do NOT show
> >> up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere).
> >>
> >> ... 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.
> 
> :-) My /etc/nsswitch.conf file ALREADY specifies 'db_enum: files'.
> 
> However, as you probably aware of, the output of 'id' _still_ shows all
> the (non-file ;-) supplementary groups I do not care about ...
> 
> That is what I tried to make clear with my message. No more.

Try

  passwd: files
  group: files

The output of `id' has nothing to do with the getpwent/getgrent
functionality db_enum is about.


Corinna

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