From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114699 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2019 06:59:10 -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 114579 invoked by uid 89); 17 Aug 2019 06:59:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Spam-Relays-External:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:59:08 +0000 Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F442F36ED3 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Rainer.invalid (unknown [91.47.58.126]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6457319AD91 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:59:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin References: <5D571D62.5040104@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5D571D62.5040104@tlinx.org> (L. A. Walsh's message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:17:22 -0700") Message-ID: <871rxk9t1r.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 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. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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