Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 11 12:45:00 GMT 2014
On Apr 10 14:24, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/10/2014 01:46 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> * 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.
> >
> > Does this mean there is no caching without cygserver running?
> >
> >> * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> >
> > This one always seemed a bit odd to me. The only use I could think up
> > is if your Windows username contains non-ASCII or spaces and you'd want
> > to avoid dealing with that within Cygwin.
>
> Windows allows usernames with spaces. POSIX says such names are
> non-portable (although it doesn't go so far as to completely exclude
> them). Furthermore, tilde expansion does NOT work for user names with
> spaces.
>
> I've had machines in the past where my windows username had a space; the
> ability to remap my passwd file to a non-space name was a lifesaver.
... and this remapping username via /etc/passwd will not go away. It's
the DB search which is a problem in terms of a special Cygwin username.
Doing this with /etc/passwd is a no-brainer. See my mail I just wrote:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00298.html
Corinna
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