From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rxk9t1r.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D571D62.5040104@tlinx.org> (L. A. Walsh's message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:17:22 -0700")
L A Walsh writes:
> If you don't have /etc/passwd or /etc/group, cygwin will generate
> DOMAIN+USER entries dynamically each time you start cygwin (or per-boot)
> if you have cygwin processes started at boot.
This is wrong. Cygwin never "generates" those nor do they change, they
are coming from the DC. I do think they get cached if you run
cygserver, but I'm not sure about that.
> If you want consistency -- same user names+id's with each boot and
> MS-Win compatible names, you may want to create /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group using mkpasswd, mkgroup and hand tuning. It isn't
> suggested for most users, but it may be something you want.
There aren't very many situations where you'd still need either of
those, especially not if your machine is a domain member.
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 1:28 David Karr
2019-08-16 9:01 ` Houder
2019-08-16 14:48 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 15:16 ` Houder
2019-08-16 18:31 ` Houder
2019-08-16 18:47 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 18:45 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 21:01 ` Houder
2019-08-16 21:46 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-16 22:33 ` David Karr
2019-08-16 21:20 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-17 1:23 ` David Karr
2019-08-17 5:31 ` David Karr
2019-08-18 6:04 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-17 7:11 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2019-08-19 12:34 ` Andrey Repin
2019-08-20 18:02 ` Win7 update may create confusing Cygwin changes L A Walsh
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