From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 56648 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2019 01:52:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 56604 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jul 2019 01:52:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Brian, brian, password X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:52:15 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id x6H1qBvi098933 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:52:13 -0700 Message-ID: <5D2E7F4B.9020606@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:52:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rename a user using setfacl -- possible? how? References: <5D1FA19D.2020707@tlinx.org> <113642000.20190706120641@yandex.ru> <5D206C63.4000908@tlinx.org> <69388071.20190706190156@yandex.ru> <2ac2d302-559c-b6ba-c7e2-5ec12e1683de@SystematicSw.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <2ac2d302-559c-b6ba-c7e2-5ec12e1683de@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-07/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 On 2019/07/06 10:01, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-07-06 10:01, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>> >>>> It should, but I strongly suggest to avoid using it outside Cygwin directory >>>> tree to maintain maximum interoperability with Windows programs. >>>> >>> No problem. my cygwin directory is at 'C:\', where it >>> has been since WinXP... (:^|) >>> >> THAT is a problem. A big problem. >> ---- Forgot to get back on this. But why would the above be a problem. It never used to be and I have found it to be very useful. >>>> getent passwd >>>> getent group >>>> >>> those don't display GUID/UUIDs, but *nix user+group ids. >>> >> Try it sometime. They do. >> > > Try: > $ id user|group > and see below for getent nsswitch changes suggested. > ---- I tried the above, BTW, and was surprised at the changes! Had a related question. I made changes to my /etc/password and /etc/group files. I seem to remember how those files were read by cygwin when it was first starting, but I don't remember how to propagate changes in those files into cygwin. Is there a way to send a command to one of the demons to reread those files? Thanks! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple