Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 28 14:10:00 GMT 2014


On Feb 27 20:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 27 20:06, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> > 2014-02-13 15:38 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> > > This is a pretty intrusive change, in need of some serious testing, so
> > > I'd like to ask for volunteers.  The latest 2014-02-13 snapshot from
> > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ contains the changes, including the latest
> > > bugfix.
> > 
> > I noticed another thing. Not sure if I would call it a problem, just
> > an observation or if it is a feature.
> > 
> > As said before, my laptop is part of a domain and I have moved the
> > local passwd and group out of the way.
> > 
> > When I am not connected to the domain (on the road) I get this error
> > every time I start mintty: "id: kan geen naam vinden bij groeps-ID
> > 1049089"
> 
> My dutch is a bit rusty but this text is obvious.  And unexpected.
> What was supposed to happen is this:
> 
> - LookupAccountSid returns with error
>   ==> Check if the local machine knows the domain name of the SID
>   ==> Yes: Create a fake group name "DOMAIN+RID"
>       No:  Create a fake group name "Unknown_Group+GID"
> [...]
> > The reason for the message seems obvious. The process can't lookup the
> > information. But it can be confusing to users to see an error at
> > startup. Is it error useful to the user? Can I suppress this message?
> 
> No, because it comes from `id', not from Cygwin, and as I wrote
> above, it's in fact unexpected and unwanted.  Could you try to
> strace this scenario?  Maybe I can figure out why the account name
> faking didn't work.

Never mind that, I could easily reproduce the issue.  Please try the
latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/.  It's supposed to fix
this issue.  It also introduces another new behaviour as outlined in

  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00735.html

Note that "db_cache: full" is the default for now so the new feature
gets a bit more testing.  The former default would have been equivalent
to "db_cache: yes".


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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