[PATCH v4 2/3] Respect `db_home` setting even for SYSTEM/Microsoft accounts

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 28 10:16:56 GMT 2023


On Mar 28 10:17, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> We should not blindly set the home directory of the SYSTEM account (or
> of Microsoft accounts) to /home/SYSTEM, especially not when that value
                                  ^^^^^^
That should probably better be <username>, no?

> disagrees with what is configured via the `db_home` line in the
> `/etc/nsswitch.conf` file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> index baa670478d..d493d29b3b 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc
> @@ -2234,7 +2234,11 @@ pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows (fetch_user_arg_t &arg, cyg_ldap *pldap)
>  	 it to a well-known group here. */
>        if (acc_type == SidTypeUser
>  	  && (sid_sub_auth_count (sid) <= 3 || sid_id_auth (sid) == 11))
> -	acc_type = SidTypeWellKnownGroup;
> +	{
> +	  acc_type = SidTypeWellKnownGroup;
> +	  home = cygheap->pg.get_home ((PUSER_INFO_3) NULL, sid, dom, name,
> +				       fully_qualified_name);
> +	}
>        switch ((int) acc_type)
>  	{
>  	case SidTypeUser:
> --
> 2.40.0.windows.1
> 


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