From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with ssh-host-config?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316100536.GC15577@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74652658081042b6aed140a56c397df0@R01UKEXCASM112.r01.fujitsu.local>
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On Mar 15 15:42, Nick.Battle@uk.fujitsu.com wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> >> In theory this should only happen if you *only* use passwd in
> >> /etc/nsswitch.conf. If you use default settings (passwd db), this
> >> branch should not be hit either.
> >>
> >> So I wonder how your /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like. Are you using
> >>
> >> passwd: passwd
> >> group: passwd
> >
> > We install the following in nsswitch.conf just before running ssh-host-config:
> >
> > passwd: files
> > group: files
> > db_home: windows
> >
> > Does that explain the path we're taking?
>
> Looking at the csih scripts, that would take the code into the mkpasswd branch with the bug.
> So perhaps no one has noticed this before simply because the default behaviour skips it.
Yup, makes sense. Thanks for checking.
Corinna
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-11 12:39 Nick.Battle
2016-03-11 14:01 ` Achim Gratz
2016-03-11 15:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-03-15 15:42 ` Nick.Battle
2016-03-16 10:05 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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