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Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?


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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