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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


Hi Corinna,

>> However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do NOT show
>> up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere).
>>
>> ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a Cygwin-only user
>> of the Windows operating system (using passwd and group files).
>
>If you only want to use the content of your passwd and group files,
>rather than the db (which is pretty much upside down from what this
>patch is trying to accomplish, but, anyway), simply change your
>/etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly.  Just as on Linux.

:-) My /etc/nsswitch.conf file ALREADY specifies 'db_enum: files'.

However, as you probably aware of, the output of 'id' _still_ shows all
the (non-file ;-) supplementary groups I do not care about ...

That is what I tried to make clear with my message. No more.

Henri



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