On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:39:34PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 11 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > > > On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > >Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux > > > >systems so > > > >I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host > > > >name is > > > >in ~/.rhosts > > > > > > If you switch to SSH, you can solve this by putting this into your > > > ~/.ssh/config file: > > > > > > Host myremotehost > > > User duncan_roe > > > > > > That is, you can override defaults (like login name) on a per-connection > > > basis. Anything you can pass as an option to ssh(1) can be changed here, > > > so > > > you don't have to keep providing the option. > > > > > > With pre-shared keys, I don't think you'll see a difference in behavior > > > relative to rsh. > > > > > I don't want to switch to ssh. rsh is in an expect script, so providing ssh > > options every time would not be a problem. But I want to use rsh. > > OTOH, if there *is* an official workaround which is, "use the /etc/passwd > file to chnage your username", wouldn't that be sufficient?
Yes it's perfect. That's what I use. > > I understand your point, but the search problem in the Windows user DBs > as I outlined persists. > > What I did a couple of weeks ago ws to change the mkpasswd tool so that > it creates the exact same passwd entries as you get when fetching them > directly from Windows. For instance, the passwd entry generated for > my AD account inside of Cygwin will look like this: > > corinna:*:1049577:1049701:Corinna > Vinschen,U-VINSCHEN\corinna,S-1-5-21-2913048732-1697188782-3448811101-1001:/home/corinna:/bin/tcsh > > Using the "new" mkpasswd, calling `mkpasswd -d -u corinna', I get the > exact same entry! If I write this into /etc/passwd, I'm getting the > exact same correct uid and gid values, but I can change my username: > > $ mkpasswd -d -u corinna > /etc/passwd > $ sed -i -e 's/^corinna:/cathy:/' /etc/passwd > [logout/login] > $ id > uid=1049577(cathy) gid=1049701(vinschen) groups=1049701(vinschen), > 559(+Performance Log Users),545(+Users),[...] > > That should be sufficient, shouldn't it? > I do that already. Good to hear it as sound practice from you though, Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
