ntsec patch description (1st try)

[Joerg Schilling]

>From cgf@cygnus.com Thu May 27 18:14:36 1999

>On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 04:50:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>From cygwin-developers-return-304-schilling=fokus.gmd.de@sourceware.cygnus.com Thu May 27 02:50:25 1999
>>
>>>To give help for creating correct passwd and group files, look at
>>>the following examples, that are parts of my files. With the exception
>>>of my personal user entry, all entries are well known entries. For
>>>better understanding, the names are translated to english NT version:
>>
>>>/etc/passwd
>>>===========
>>>everyone:*:0:0:::
>>>system:*:18:18:::
>>>administrator::500:544::/home/root:/bin/bash
>>>guest:*:501:546:::
>>>administrators:*:544:544::/home/root:
>>>corinna::1000:547:Corinna Vinschen:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh
>>
>>>/etc/group
>>>==========
>>>everyone::0:
>>>system::18:
>>>none::513:
>>>administrators::544:
>>>users::545:
>>>guests::546:
>>>powerusers::547:
>>
>>Nice idea. If this would be part of Cygwin, 'star' would allow you to write
>>to a remote tape drive on a UNIX server. I already tested this some weeks ago.

>What's the "nice idea" here?  I'm missing something.  /etc/passwd and /etc/group
>are already part of cygwin and Corinna's changes are in the latest snapshots.

Sorry, I missed it. It's a long time that i got a new snapshot - sorry.

Jörg

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