Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 10 13:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again.
> >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group
> >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> >files.
> >
> >Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29,
> >but there's one important change I'd like to point out:
> >
> >* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
> >
> >   All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
> >   and group entries from cygserver.  While this is probably a bit
> >   slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information
> >   is present and later started processes will get the information
> >   with all due speed.
> 
> Do we need to install cygserver.exe from the snapshot in order to
> get this functionality, or is cygwin1.dll enough?

This required new code in cygserver to handle the application requests,
so you need the snapshot cygserver.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat
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