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Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:35:10 +0400
- Subject: Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Linda Walsh!
> I also add significant entries to my group file that
> cygwin leaves out -- but that do show up on an
> id. (all the standard well defined groups), including
> "specifically:
> Untrusted Mandatory Level:S-1-16-0:11600000:
> Low Mandatory Level:S-1-16-4096:11604096:
> Medium Mandatory Level:S-1-16-8192:1168192:
> Medium Plus Mandatory Level:S-1-16-8448:1168448:
> High Mandatory Level:S-1-16-12288:11612288:
> System Mandatory Level:S-1-16-16384:11616384:root
> Protected Process Mandatory Level:S-1-16-20480:11620480:
> Secure Process Mandatory Level:S-1-16-28672:11628672:
> So when I use 'id', I get:
> uid=15013(Bliss\law) gid=10201(Bliss\lawgroup)
> groups=10201(Bliss\lawgroup),544(Administrators),545(Users),10512(Bliss\Domain
> Admins),10513(Bliss\Domain Users),10517(Bliss\Cert
> Publishers),10518(Bliss\Schema Admins),10519(Bliss\Enterprise
> Admins),10520(Bliss\Group Policy Creator
> Owners),10260(Bliss\torrent),11053(Bliss\Trusted Local Net Users),11612288(High
> Mandatory Level)
> The security levels are mostly for informational / interest purposes...
> Maybe they might be added to cygwin if it is going to substitute it's own
> internal DB?
As I understand it, these groups/names will be retrieved directly from system
as the need arise.
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 04.02.2014, <18:34>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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