From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140410191558.GM2437@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140410191120.GL2437@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On Apr 10 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> > >
> > > This is a really fat problem.
> >
> > Who needs this functionality?
>
> I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about how
> he uses this for... something. Something to do with logging in to other
> machines or so.
>
> > Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to
> > have colons in Windows login names?
>
> No, it's just some legacy of how we allow this for /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group. See, for instance entries like
>
> root:S-1-5-21-544:0:
>
> to fake a root group backed by the administrators group. It
> seemed like a good idea at the time (2000 or so) and this would
> not be possible anymore. But, in fact, I was trying to make sure
> all the time that our applications don't rely on this. And if we
> actually have an application which relies on this, it's a bug.
>
> > Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you
> > actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense?
>
> I never had this need. To me it was just a funny extension. But maybe
> other users are using this, so I'm a bit unlucky now that I invented it
> in the first place.
s/unlucky/unhappy/
Corinna
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 14:53 Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 15:19 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-04-10 15:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 18:39 ` Warren Young
2014-04-10 19:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 20:21 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-04-10 21:13 ` Eric Blake
2014-04-10 22:22 ` Warren Young
2014-04-11 12:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-11 12:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-13 10:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-14 8:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-14 9:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-13 10:35 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-14 8:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 17:21 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-10 17:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-13 10:50 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-14 8:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 18:42 ` Warren Young
2014-04-10 19:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 19:16 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-04-11 2:17 ` Duncan Roe
2014-04-11 3:47 ` Warren Young
2014-04-11 6:20 ` Duncan Roe
2014-04-11 12:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-12 0:06 ` Duncan Roe
2014-04-10 19:46 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-10 20:24 ` Eric Blake
2014-04-11 12:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-11 12:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-11 23:36 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-12 11:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-12 14:20 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-12 14:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-15 21:15 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-16 8:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-16 9:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-16 15:28 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-16 15:32 ` Ken Brown
2014-04-16 15:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-13 10:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-14 8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-14 9:20 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-14 10:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-14 23:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-04-15 8:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
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