Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 10 19:16:00 GMT 2014
On Apr 10 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> > >
> > > This is a really fat problem.
> >
> > Who needs this functionality?
>
> I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about how
> he uses this for... something. Something to do with logging in to other
> machines or so.
>
> > Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to
> > have colons in Windows login names?
>
> No, it's just some legacy of how we allow this for /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group. See, for instance entries like
>
> root:S-1-5-21-544:0:
>
> to fake a root group backed by the administrators group. It
> seemed like a good idea at the time (2000 or so) and this would
> not be possible anymore. But, in fact, I was trying to make sure
> all the time that our applications don't rely on this. And if we
> actually have an application which relies on this, it's a bug.
>
> > Does the move to AD/SAM eliminate the original need, so that you
> > actually have *two* reasons to stop paying the runtime expense?
>
> I never had this need. To me it was just a funny extension. But maybe
> other users are using this, so I'm a bit unlucky now that I invented it
> in the first place.
s/unlucky/unhappy/
Corinna
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