From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 07:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509074215.GD2645@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeCd-OL1U-9CTTXByWx4voR-uBGrQ7zdWk=FyDoREj7NymRYA@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 8 19:17, Robert Pendell wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I created a new snapshot on http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which
> > introduces the following behaviour, which is a bit less intrusive:
> >
> > If a local account is connected to a Microsoft Account, the primary
> > group defaults to "Users". If it's a normal local accout it defaults
> > to "None", as usual. This also covers mkpasswd from the snapshot.
> >
> > This does not work if you continue to use an already existing
> > /etc/passwd file. I have no good solution for this sccenario, other
> > than a (yet to be written) FAQ entry.
> >
> > Hope that helps nevertheless.
>
> Thanks for all the effort you have put forth on this issue Corinna. I
> checked the snapshot today and found the behavior to be matching what
> you described. An expected side effect right now is that old files
> still have the group SID set to the user SID as well as all the other
> installed files placed by the OS however there isn't much we can do
> there beyond changing the group manually for the files.
Indeed. Cygwin can't (and must not) change the permissions of existing
files. But usually this shoudn't hurt, unless a file of a security
sensitive application is affected.
Thanks for testing!
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 13:49 Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 13:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 14:17 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 14:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 15:23 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 15:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 16:17 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 18:52 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-06 13:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-05 18:56 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 19:44 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-05 21:57 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:07 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-05 22:39 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-06 0:43 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-06 12:23 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-05 22:09 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-06 12:52 ` Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members) Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 12:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 13:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 12:26 ` vlado99
2014-05-07 12:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 17:01 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-06 17:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-06 18:22 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 11:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 12:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:09 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 14:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-08 20:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-08 23:18 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-09 0:12 ` Ken Brown
2014-05-09 1:34 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-09 6:11 ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-09 7:42 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-05-07 14:05 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-07 14:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-05-07 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-07 14:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
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