From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: David Dombrowsky <davek@6thstreetradio.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd: fatal: seteuid XXX : No such device or address
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <668642460.20190314174849@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <810acffd-be27-e722-3924-7adb7435506c@gmail.com>
Greetings, David Dombrowsky!
> On 3/14/19 10:11 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Please remove /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. They are no longer necessary,
>> unless you have some very special needs, and even then, they only needed for
>> that one or two accounts you need special treatment for.
>>
> Wait what? What about all the standard unix programs that use those
> files to determine UID and all that?
No program should use these files to determine UID and all that.
If any of them does, it is either 30+ years old or not a standard program and
whoever wrote it should be beaten to death.
> Since when can we blow away
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group on a cygwin install?
Since about 3 to 5 years.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, March 14, 2019 17:47:17
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-14 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-14 11:39 renaud.rolles
2019-03-14 12:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-14 13:26 ` renaud.rolles
2019-03-14 13:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-14 14:03 ` renaud.rolles
2019-03-14 14:20 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-14 14:24 ` David Dombrowsky
2019-03-14 14:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-14 14:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2019-03-14 14:38 ` renaud.rolles
2019-03-14 15:07 ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-14 15:29 ` renaud.rolles
2019-07-10 16:10 ` schleprock
2019-03-14 15:53 ` Houder
2019-03-14 17:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-15 13:06 ` Houder
2019-03-15 13:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-15 19:39 ` Houder
2019-03-15 20:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-16 9:21 ` Houder
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