From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 00:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536C1D6C.8010908@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeCd-OL1U-9CTTXByWx4voR-uBGrQ7zdWk=FyDoREj7NymRYA@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/8/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Pendell wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May 7 16:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May 7 10:09, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> And here's a problem which I'm not sure how to solve at all:
>>>>>
>>>>> When calling the latest mkpasswd, the primary group of the local
>>>>> user account backing the Microsoft Account will *still* be "None".
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason is that the local account is just the same old account
>>>>> as usual. Its default primary group *is* "None".
>>>>>
>>>>> Only when logging in via the Micosoft Account email address, the
>>>>> user token will not reflect what's stored in the local SAM, but
>>>>> will have been changed by the OS as outlined in this thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, when a user decides to create a passwd file rather than using
>>>>> the SAM/DB code in Cygwin, the information generated by mkpasswd
>>>>> will not match the user token, and the primary group stored in
>>>>> /etc/passwd will not even be available at all in the user token.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not the faintest idea how to workaround this schizophrenia.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Corinna
>>>>>
>>>> Oh wow. It took me two reads of this to understand it. Caffeine is
>>>> finally kicking in, I guess. Unless you just want to hard code the
>>>> primary group that mkpasswd generates to "Users" for any account
>>>> that it would tend to want to set as "None". That would be some
>>>> smelly code though.
>>>
>>> Hmm, but it might fix a couple of problems. If we go ahead and
>>> always convert the "None" primary group to "Users", we'd have a
>>> pretty stable state, which works nicely for local accounts,
>>> independently of habving logged in as normal account or as Microsoft
>>> Account. This might be the easiest workaound, in fact.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
>
> 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.
>
> On that note I used the larger inst package (to get updates to
> mkpasswd and the like) and noticed that there is a /usr/lib and
> /usr/bin folder with the updated files however cygwin mounts /lib and
> /bin on top of the respective folders making any files installed there
> inaccessible in a normal cygwin run.
This doesn't happen if you install the snapshot by the method suggested
in the FAQ:
http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.snapshots
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 0:12 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2014-05-09 1:34 ` Robert Pendell
2014-05-09 6:11 ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-09 7:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
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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