Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
J.H. vd Water
henri.van.de.water@xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 20 19:05:00 GMT 2014
Hi Corinna,
>> However, as you know, the supplementary group to which I referred above do NOT show
>> up in my /etc/group file on Cygwin (they show up in SAM ... somewhere).
>>
>> ... and I do not care, as these groups are NOT relevant to me as a Cygwin-only user
>> of the Windows operating system (using passwd and group files).
>
>If you only want to use the content of your passwd and group files,
>rather than the db (which is pretty much upside down from what this
>patch is trying to accomplish, but, anyway), simply change your
>/etc/nsswitch.conf file accordingly. Just as on Linux.
:-) My /etc/nsswitch.conf file ALREADY specifies 'db_enum: files'.
However, as you probably aware of, the output of 'id' _still_ shows all
the (non-file ;-) supplementary groups I do not care about ...
That is what I tried to make clear with my message. No more.
Henri
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