Re: cygrunsrv no longer allows domain user

[Len Giambrone <Leonard dot Giambrone at intersystems dot com>]

On 03/31/2015 02:00 PM, Len Giambrone wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 06:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 30 14:07, Len Giambrone wrote:
> > > This used to work (before Corinna's db work):
> > >
> > > $ cygrunsrv -I myservice -d 'myservice' -u 'ISCINTERNAL\build' -w 
> > > donotuseme
> > > -p /cygdrive/f/tut/install.sh
> > > cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: CreateService:  Win32 error 
> > > 1057:
> > > The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is 
> > > invalid
> > > for the account name specified.
> > >
> > > Using + doesn't help either:
> > >
> > > $ cygrunsrv -I myservice -d 'myservice' -u 'ISCINTERNAL+build' -w 
> > > donotuseme
> > > -p /cygdrive/f/tut/install.sh
> > > cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: CreateService:  Win32 error 
> > > 1057:
> > > The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is 
> > > invalid
> > > for the account name specified.
> > >
> > > Is there an incantation that will work?
> > Uhm, not with Cygwin 1.7.35, unless your domain is the primary domain of
> > your machine, in which case you just omit the leading domain:
> >
> >    cygrunsrv [...] -u 'build'
> >
> > This is a bug in Cygwin.  Cygrunsrv calls getpwnam("ISCINTERNAL\\build")
> > and the underlying code fails to recognize this as invalid Cygwin user
> > name.  Instead, it constructs a user entry for a user
> > ISCINTERNAL+ISCINTERNAL\build and carries on.
>
> Ok, so reading your patch, you just don't allow fully qualified 
> usernames and return an error.  What if I have two users foo, one 
> local to the machine, and one that is in the domain the machine is a 
> member of?
> How do I make the distinction?  Right now -u foo (by empirical 
> evidence) translates to DOMAIN\foo; how to I specify LOCALMACHINE\foo?

Never mind, I answered my own question:

build@wx64lg ~
$ cygrunsrv -I myservice -u build -p /cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin/perl.exe
Enter password of user `ISCINTERNAL\build':
Reenter, please:
Sorry, passwords do not match.
Enter password of user `ISCINTERNAL\build':
Reenter, please:

build@wx64lg ~
$ cygrunsrv -R myservice

build@wx64lg ~
$ cygrunsrv -I myservice -u WX64LG+build -p /cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin/perl.exe
Enter password of user `WX64LG\build':
Reenter, please:




> > I fixed that in the repo and uploaded new developer snapshots 2015-03-31
> > with this patch to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/.  Please give them a 
> > try.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Corinna

--
-Len

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