From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96657 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2019 14:50:08 -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 96644 invoked by uid 89); 14 Mar 2019 14:50:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=UD:ru, HX-Priority:Normal, whoever, H*M:yandex X-HELO: forward102o.mail.yandex.net Received: from forward102o.mail.yandex.net (HELO forward102o.mail.yandex.net) (37.140.190.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:50:06 +0000 Received: from mxback16j.mail.yandex.net (mxback16j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::92]) by forward102o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 09D246681F09; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:50:03 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (smtp2o.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::26]) by mxback16j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id mVQBAu2E86-o2emtmFY; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:50:02 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1552575003; bh=ByO0KzEJlH3uNAt5BypZ35UY656N1/+lRQdHraLJW1Y=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:To:Reply-To:From:Message-ID:References:Date; b=TKY4qXC1xxyZqDvKEUmFSw3TGkKcrj0WBAYN9+Ctbi77QrarZ5niLDsNODhh2Jqek k+yW3cB5XPN8f8boCiCzMgcdmTl6BTE5ydYFxMJLo11Lna87qP9g1KiRe1ZNtAppRz dbHH1hvm8TJkPH8XmmADzDaevW8mVt6idGtA7XjY= Authentication-Results: mxback16j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Received: by smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id knSY0fzDGO-o15WUnhk; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:50:02 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:48:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:50:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <668642460.20190314174849@yandex.ru> To: David Dombrowsky , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd: fatal: seteuid XXX : No such device or address In-Reply-To: <810acffd-be27-e722-3924-7adb7435506c@gmail.com> References: <011a01d4da5a$96247330$c26d5990$@giraudbtp.com> <20190314121034.GG3785@calimero.vinschen.de> <014e01d4da69$965ee650$c31cb2f0$@giraudbtp.com> <576975390.20190314171124@yandex.ru> <810acffd-be27-e722-3924-7adb7435506c@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 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. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, March 14, 2019 17:47:17 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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