From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16940 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2014 09:46:54 -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 16925 invoked by uid 89); 28 Oct 2014 09:46:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (HELO smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl) (194.109.24.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:46:52 +0000 Received: from webmail.xs4all.nl (dovemail18.xs4all.nl [194.109.26.20]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s9S9kmnU070599 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:46:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from houder@xs4all.nl) Received: from 83.162.234.136 (SquirrelMail authenticated user incog) by webmail.xs4all.nl with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:46:48 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20141028092812.GE20607@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20141028092812.GE20607@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:46:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Why does mkpasswd -c use a different offset? Corinna? From: "Houder" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00481.txt.bz2 > On Oct 28 00:11, Houder wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> I am confused ... the output from mkpasswd -c is NOT the same as the output from mkpasswd -l -u on >> both my "Cygwin-32" and my "Cygwin-64". [snip] >> Please, enlighten me ... > > It's a bug. Funny that this has never been reported before. ... aha, that makes sense. > It shouldn't matter anymore, though, because mkpasswd is changing > significantly with 1.7.33. I would suggest to take a look into the > current test release 1.7.33-0.3. The mkpasswd command will produce > the same uid and gid values as the values generated by the Cygwin > DLL in "db" mode to avoid collisions. Aha ... I have already replaced the cygwin1.dll (on my Cygwin-32) with the one from the snapshot ... apparently, that is not sufficient ... Thank you very much for your clarification! Henri ===== -- 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