Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. > It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group > account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files.
> Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29, > but there's one important change I'd like to point out: > * 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 that I could benefit from running cygserver in local environment? Specifically, if I'm using Cygwin tools outside Cygwin shell? > I attached the latest incarnation of the documentation for this > major change to this mail. > However! > After sweating about some of the details I created in my scrubby mind > back in January/February, I'm not so sure anymore if some if was really > such a bright idea. > Especially two problems cropped up in discussions with local Cygwin > users: > * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. I think I said it before, but I'll just repeat that I don't see this as a feature. Confusion option, at best. The worst case you've just outlined below. > Fixing this problem leads to terrible performance. Obviously Cygwin > doesn't know if "yoghurt" is a local or an AD account. Or, FWIW, an > account in some trusted domain. Finding "kefir" in the SAM of the > local machine requires to enumerate *all* accounts, until the account > with > > <cygwin name="kefir" .../> > > is found. Even worse in AD. An ldap query is required which searches > for an account with uid="kefir". The uid attribute is not indexed by > default. Same for all trusted domains. > * db_separator in /etc/nsswitch.conf > Is it really such a good idea to have a configurable separator > char in user and group names? Is it important that it is > configurable? Is '+' a good choice for the default separator? > Wouldn't the backslash a better and, perhaps, only choice? The "+" as a separator was conceived in *NIX because backslash has a long history of being a way-too-meaningful escape character. (Though, you know it, I'll just say it for other interested parties.) I don't have an opinion on it, but I tend to favor native semantics, means, the backslash. If anyone are familiar with modern state of preferred domain separator in Samba 4, would that effect the decision? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 13.04.2014, <14:11> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
